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Asha for Education – An overview
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Agenda
Agenda
Education in India – A need for action
Asha for Education
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Raising Awareness
How YOU can get involved
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Agenda
Agenda
Education in India – A need for action
Asha for Education – What is Asha ?
Asha for Education – Detroit Chapter
Raising Awareness
How YOU can get involved
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Literacy Rates Worldwide
Source: UNICEF 1999
Adult literacy rates
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India’s Progress in Literacy
Source: Calculated from census data
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Education Expenditure/GNP
Source: Organization of Economic Cooperation and Development, Education at a Glance 1996
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Norway US UK Germany Japan India Turkey
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But There is Hope – HP Example
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Agenda
Agenda
Education in India – A need for action
Asha for Education – What is Asha ?
Asha for Education – Detroit Chapter
Raising Awareness
How YOU can get involved
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Our Mission
To catalyze socio-economic change through education for the underprivileged children in India
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What is Asha?
Asha supports socio-economic change via education for under-privileged children in India
Every dollar raised by Asha goes directly to support education
Asha for education is a non-profit organization
It is run entirely by volunteers
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Asha: Some Facts
Started in UC Berkeley in 1991
40+ chapters worldwide
300+ Active volunteers
130+ projects
Total disbursements until now - over $1.5 million
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1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
$3 $10 $30 $53$92
$164 $178
$339
$689
$1048
$0K
$250K
$500K
$750K
$1000K
$1250K
Asha - Funds Raised
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1991 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000
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Unique Projects By Year
Excludes double-counting of projects supported by multiple chapters
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Asha Projects: Basic Criteria
Must improve the general welfare of the community with basic education as a major component
Non-sectarian groups which do not have any political or religious agenda
Do not discriminate on the basis of caste, religion or sex
Small, yet, deserving projects that find it difficult to obtain funds from elsewhere
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Project Monitoring
Projects provide periodic finance statements, progress reports, correspond on management issues etc.
Projects are monitored through visits either by Asha volunteers or the various groups Asha works with, such as AID, CRY etc.
Projects are monitored for• reduction in dropout rate• commitment to socio-economic change in the region• increase in number of students• improvement in facilities
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Agenda
Agenda
Education in India – A need for action
Asha for Education – What is Asha ?
Asha for Education – Detroit Chapter
Raising Awareness
How YOU can get involved
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Detroit Chapter Projects – A snapshot
Seva Bharati Project, Tamil Nadu ($980). In this project, Asha supports the educational needs of the children including uniforms and text books
Muskaan – Bhopal, MP. ($6300)
Purna Pragna Trust – Mysore district, Karnataka ($4500). The focus of this project is an alternative education school.
Shanti Sadhana Ashram – Guwahati, Assam ($5000). The focus here is to prepare the children in the tribal areas for government schools.
Irula, Bharati Trust – Tamil Nadu ($1000). This was a $63,000 project supported by various chapters and national events. The focus of this project is alternative education for tribal/dalit children and also provide some vocational training.
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Seva Bharati Project, Tamil Nadu
17 boys and 15 girls from single parent families are supported full-time
Asha supports the educational needs of the children including uniforms and text books
Additional support for introducing sewing machines for teaching tailoring
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Muskaan (Bhopal, M.P.)
The reason for Muskaan
162 slums have been identified in Bhopal town. Estimates of number of children not in schools vary from 75,000 to 2,00,000. Kotra Sultanabad, with a radius of 2 kilometres has five prominent slum colonies with an estimated population of 60,000. Adult literacy is not more than 15%, and children going to schools would be 25 - 35 % in the whole area. In Ganga Nagar, the population is estimated at 2,500. Average income of a family is Rs. 1500/- per month, with 90% of the men being employed at daily wages. Child enrolment in schools is less than 20% for this area.
What is Muskaan ?
Muskaan is an organization working for education of slum children in Bhopal. At present it is working for children in a particular slum (Ganganagar) where falimies of 'gond' tribe reside. Muskaan was started 2 years ago by Shivani Taneja after she completed her Masters in Social Work.
Goals:
To promote meaningful education amongst children
To restore the rights of food, shelter, education and health to deprived children
To promote economic independence by providing opportunities for learning basic skills to youth and women
To promote awareness of social problems
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Muskaan Project, Bhopal
Education for 80 children from the Ganga Nagar slum
Enrollment in regular schools less than 20% in Ganga Nagar
Muskaan provides non-formal education and prepares children for admission to formal schools
• Over 50 children admitted in last two years
Asha provides support for teachers salaries, educational supplies and running expenses
Bablu
NaaniHeena
Ishwar
Baali
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Purna Pragna Trust (Mysore, Karnataka)
The Purnapragna Shishu Vihar at Alanahalli in Mysore is better known as Tarakka's school. Tara Gopinath, her sister, Malathi, and a friend pooled in their resources and started a school to cater to the needs of needy children in their neighbourhood.
Tarakka’s school follows its own syllabus. The students range in age from four to fifteen and all study in groups. Each study group is comprised of seven to eight students. The regular government syllabus is introduced only when the student is mentally prepared. Even then the subjects are treated as simple stories. There are a total of 31 students and 4 teachers.
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Shanti Sadhana Ashram (Guwahati, Assam)
Goals:
To make all the children in the tribal villages go to the government schools after attending the pre-
primary level of study through non-formal education.
What is Shanti Sadhana ?
Shanti Sadhana Ashram is one of the pioneer organisations in championing the cause of literacy in the backward districts of Assam, which it started as a "Literacy As a Movement of the People (LAMP)" in 1989. Since the beginning of the literacy movement the Ashram had an ardent desire to start some innovative schools for deprived children scattered in the remote areas of many districts.
Location
The Jeevan Sadhana Bidya Niketans of Shanti Sadhana Ashram have been running in 4 districts of Assam in 4 Development Blocks. The four blocks are - Dimoria Development Block, Pachim Abhaypur Development Block, Narayanpur Development Block and Tamulpur Development Block, of Kamrup, Sibsagar, Lakhimpur and Nalbari districts respectively of Assam. A school has also been running in Durgapur, West Bengal. All the schools are located in rural backward areas and cover children from at least 3-4 nearby villages.
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Agenda
Agenda
Education in India – A need for action
Asha for Education – What is Asha ?
Asha for Education – Detroit Chapter
Raising Awareness
How YOU can get involved
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Raising Awareness...
Presentations to Corporations and Universities
Participation in India Day Parade
Newsletters
Distribution of fliers at events
Word-of-mouth
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Raising Funds...
Concerts
Events (chapter events)
Writing grants for corporate funding
Asha Stars (Project supported by direct financial contribution from individuals)
Individual and corporate tax-exempt donations
Sale of merchandise - T-shirts, Asha diyas, greeting cards etc.
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Agenda
Agenda
Education in India – A need for action
Asha for Education – What is Asha ?
Asha for Education – Detroit Chapter
Raising Awareness
How YOU can get involved
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How You Can Get Involved
YOU and Asha
Learn More About Issues
Publicize
Volunteer
Support a Project
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Asha Wide participation
Stay up-to-date in world-wide Asha activities -
• Visit http://www.ashanet.org/detroit
Participate and volunteer for Asha wide activities -
• Work-an-hour: Donate one hour of your salary for Education
• Support a child
• Raise awareness of Asha. Help us market Asha merchandise
• Talented in graphics or typesetting? Help out in Calendar Preparation/web development
• Want to be personally involved in a project? Become an Asha Star
Asha in India - The next time you visit India, stop by our projects or our chapters all over India like Bombay, Chennai, Delhi, Bangalore etc.
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The Asha Stars Program
A program where you, along with a group of like-minded individuals (typ. 5-10), take responsibility for a specific project
• Asha Stars get first-hand understanding of issues related to development and see a project grow over time
• With a secure source of long-term support, the project is able to strike roots and move towards self-sufficiency
Get approval of the project by a registered Asha for Education chapter
Site visit - Prior to the start of the project and once a year after that
Maintain a web page for the project -- use Asha Projects template
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Tarangini – An Evening of Indian Dance & Music
TaranginiTaranginian evening of Indian Dance and Music
In support of educating
the underprivileged children in India
Featuring:
Mrinalini & Anil Arkatkar w/ Jay Antani
“JHANKAAR” (Urmila, Yogesh, Rajiv & Mohar)
Dance Troupes featuring disciples of
Sandhya Athmakuri & Bhavani Murthy
Sat April 26, 2003 @ 5:30pm
Troy High School Theater
4777 Northfield Parkway
Troy, MI 48098
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A Volleyball-Fund Raising Event
When: Sunday, August 3, 2002 (9 AM)
(Rain Day: Sun. Aug 10)
Where: Firefighters Park, Troy
(between Crooks and Coolidge, on Square Lake Rd)
How: Donation: $10/person or 40$ /team (6)
Have fun and help a kid go to school!!
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Hope for the Future
Today children are India’s future citizens and leaders. Asha for Education is a step towards securing a healthy and
progressive future.
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Join us in our efforts and be part of the solution...
Asha for Education
P.O. Box 99034Troy, MI 48093-9034
Email: ashadetroit@yahoo.com
www.ashanet.org/detroit
(248) 362-1158
All donations to Asha for Education are tax deductible under IRS code 501 (c ) 3.
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Asha for Education
To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children.