Asha for Education

Empower dalit children by providing them opportunities to bring out their talents. Address issues such as poverty, injustice, and oppression in the name of cast, gender and religion and work toward establishing a just society.

FORWORD was formed in 1991 by M.Shiamalababy and other like minded individuals who believed in social transformation. They feel that the world is ruled by powers of destruction like social injustice, inequality, social insecurity for women, political corruption. This leads to hunger, unequal distribution of resources, sickness and suffering amongst the majority while the minority enjoys the affluence. They believe that the need of the hour is a complete social transformation which can be achieved by the education of the oppressed and the marginalized-especially the younger generation. This kind of education should comprise life awareness education with quality in addition to the formal school education.

FORWORD is particularly impressive because it is using innovative methods to encourage community involvement in its efforts. FORWORD will first organize a troupe of about 20 trained children that will perform in these target villages to help build greater