Asha for Education

Project Brief: ASHA Chennai aims to fund school/college fees, cost of uniform and books for children from underprivileged background
Project Type: Support a Child (description)
Primary Focus: to go to formal school (description)

Secondary Focus: to go to formal school

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Chennai

Status: CURRENT
Project Steward: Venkataraman Muthukrishnan
Co-Steward: Venkataraman Muthukrishnan
Project Partner(s): Kasturi Easwaran
Project Address: Asha Trust - Asha Chennai Scholarships
First Floor, 85/2, Luz Avenue, Mylapore, Chennai 600004
Near Nageswara rao park
chennai, Tamil Nadu 600004
Tel: 91 94455-74295
Stewarding Chapter: Chennai

<font face="Times New Roman" size="2">While many of the projects of Asha-Chennai focus on helping schools that educate under-privileged children, we felt there is also a need to help the under-privileged children who attend other schools and colleges spread all over the city and in rural TamilNadu. In addition to providing financial assistance to these children we believe that Asha volunteers provide valuable mentoring to these children.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="2">To this end the Asha Scholarships project aims to fund the school/college fees and cost of uniform and books for children from 1st standard to college (LKG and UKG in exceptional cases). The children should be from under-privileged background.</font>

<font face="Times New Roman" size="2">The Asha Scholarship Guidelines (shown in the document section) provides detailed criteria by which the children are chosen.</font>

<b><font size="2"> Purpose / Goals</font></b>
<ul> <li><font face="Times New Roman"><font size="2"> Reach a wide and diverse cross-section of children spread over Chennai and rural TamilNadu.</font>
<li><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">Provide active mentoring and funding to empower the children in their holistic development and be responsible citizens.</font></li></font></ul><b><font size="3">Support - a - Child</font></b>
<font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> Asha Chennai launched Support-A-Child program to support Asha Scholarships students. As a sponsor under the support a child program, you can sponsor any number of children supported by Asha-Scholarships project. Your contribution would cover the education expenses for the number of children you have chosen (including school fees, books and uniforms). Further Asha Chennai volunteers and other people chosen by Asha Chennai would provide mentorship to the selected children. The intention of Asha Scholarships project is to empower the children to complete their basic education and become fully functional adults.</font>

<font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> As an SAC sponsor, the following information/support would be provided to you by Asha-Chennai:</font>
<ol><li><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> Information we collect about the student including school/college and economic background will be put up in the web page.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> We would provide a general progress report once a year for school and college students that would include nominator/scholarship group's statement on the progress of and the challenges facing the student.</font></li></ol>
<font size="2" face="Times New Roman"><i> Please note that under the new rules for Asha for Education, the donors cannot select a specific student for sponsorship. The donations have to be made generally to the project. However, donors can still receive reports for specific students they choose.</i>
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<font face="Times New Roman"><b><i><font size="2" face="Times New Roman">To sponsor a child, please do one of the following:</font></i></b></font>

<ul><li><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> Note the amount required under the different categories of students (College – 20000, 11th and 12th – Rs 17,000, Classes 1 to 10 – Rs 12,000.) These are children we have already decided to sponsor based on our estimate of our ability to raise funds. We always have several pending cases.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> Donate online using your credit card at our online donations page. You can reach this by clicking on the "Donate to this project" button above.</font></li>
<li><font size="2" face="Times New Roman"> If you would like to donate by cheque or have any questions about this project, please send an E-mail to Asha Chennai SAC at [email protected].</font></li></ul>