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Manaviya Shiksha Sanskar Sansthan - Asha for Education

Manaviya Shiksha Sanskar Sansthan

Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh

A Community Development Initiative


Deepak Gupta, cofounder of Asha for Education with Sandeep, has started the Manaviya Shiksha Sanskar (MS3) project in Mandhana, near the Indian Institute of Technology at Kanpur.

This project focuses on self-reliance achieved by following a certain way of living.


Features of courses offered

• Course duration: 1/2/3 years • 10 students admitted each year to ensure personal

attention for every one.

• Four students in every batch will be specially trained to run (in pairs of two) more such institutes, to ensure that every institute leads to the creation of two new institutes each year, thus multiplying the number of institutes exponentially.


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MS3: Overview

• Helping children of migrant labor with primary education

• Providing vocational training skills for children of migrant labor

• Making MS3 self sustaining


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Helping children of migrant labor

• Problems faced– No scope for basic education because of constant travel

with their parents

– Few vocational skills other than manual labor for construction work

• Solution– Classes held at construction sites to teach them how to

read and write

– The aim is to make them less susceptible to exploitation

– Counsel migrant labor to help overcome day to day problems


Manoj teaching a class at construction site


Computer at the center


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Vocational training for children

• Provide vocational training to children at the institute

• After graduation, these children have a choice of going back to their village to put their skills to use

• They can help train others in becoming self reliant

• Support for graduates who are willing to continue with higher education

• Syllabus includes– Life skills

– ‘Jeevan Vidya’ – philosophy of living; expected to help achieve material contentment, mental happiness and social cohesion.


Agricultural production


Parents counseling session in progress


Volunteers in action


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Making MS3 self sustaining

• Make use of the economic activities within the Sansthan to generate money

• Activities include:– Honey production – Dairy– Ayurvedic medicine – Carpentry – Agriculture – Software Development


Cows used for dairy production


Construction at the MS3 site


Fact sheet

Established - 1998 Total funds disbursed in 2001: $17,867

2000 $ 3,000 from Asha Seattle2000 $ 4,300 from Asha Dallas2000 $ 5,500 from Asha Master 2000 $ 3,400 from Asha Silicon Valley1999 $ 1,500 from Asha Arizona 1999 $ 10,000 from Work an Hour

Chapters involved: Asha Silicon Valley, Asha Dallas Asha Stars from NYC/NJ Stars

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