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Asha for Education- Providing Hope for Tomorrow

Current Projects

Ongoing:

1. BCT (Bhagavathula Charitable Trust )

2. Gram Vikas Trust - Balwadi project 

3. Hijli INSPIRATION : Bridging the Divide 

4. INSEED - Muktangan 

5. Trinita Society For Social & Health Research - Cross Stitch  (GSU funding)

6. Trinita Society For Social & Health Research - Education Centers + SAC

7. Nishtha Night Shelter + Jagaran (Birmingham + Shortfall)

Asha Wide

1. Jayaprakash Narayan Memorial Trust - Vidya and Child 

2. Kalyania - Prayas Centre (ShortFall)

On Hold

1. Prayas (Vocational Institute for Mentally Handicapped) 

2. Jeevan Gnanodaya  (ShortFall)

Incoming : Viklang Vidyalaya (Bihar) & Ashraya (Kerala)

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2011 Fund-Raising Status

1. Donations ($10K)

• Project Specific : $6K

• General : $4K

2. Wide ($10.5K)

• General Funds : $3K

• Vidya & Child : $1.2K

• Nishtha WAH 2011 : $6.5K

3. Events (>$5K)

• Marathon : $4K +..

• Restaurant Week : $1K

=> Available funds not earmarked : $20K

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2011 Project Status

1. Funds Sent ($19K from Chapter funds, $8.5K Wide Initiatives)

• Trinita (SAC -EM + Educational Center + Cross-Stitch - EM)

• Nishtha Infrastructure (via WAH 19.2K)

• INSEED ($1K)

• GVT ($1K) -EM

• BCT ($1.6K) –EM

• Jeevan Gnanodaya ($4K) – Urgent requirement

• Vidya & Child via QED

• INSPIRATION – 1 Quarter

2. Pending ($5.2K out of $20K non-EM)

• Nishtha Night Shelter: $3.5K

• Nishtha Jagaran : $2K (earmarked from Birmingham)

• INSPIRATION : $1.7K

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Site Visits in October (Padmanava)

• Trinita

• Detailed discussions with Shampadi, Anthony regarding status of each projects

• Their take on RTE and what is possible

• Nishtha

• Visited the night shelter, their homes

• Discussed about any self-sustainable solutions

• INSPIRATION

• Visited all Asha-supported centers

• Discussed the improvements in Child marriages, human trafficking

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What Project Stewards can Do

Project Survey Completed to understand what PP needs

Commitment

Annual budgeting is a must

1 yr advance notice in case fundraising goes bad

Detailed discussions with the Chapter to understand the possibility of

self-sustainability

Main Goals/Challenges in next 2 yrs

RTE compliance and work with the PP

Maintain our commitment for projects like Nishtha

Generate Project-specific donations

Give regular updates to project-specific donors and Sustain

Join Wiki and understand the evolving situation

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About Nishtha

25 Years in service (Currently 2 Crores in Expenditures)

Beneficiaries

Direct : 5000 students + 5000 women

Indirect: 2.4 Lakh (~250 Villages; 75 in 2006)

Main Challenges

Acceptance of the kids by rest of the society

Continue their studies against all negative influence in the locality

(language, drugs, anti-socials, abuse & other)

Protecting the young girls

Goals

0% Drop out from formal schools

A normal life for the kids

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Nishtha - Our Involvement

Started Supporting in 2006

$20K till date + $19K during WAH campaign

Not self-sustainable

Extremely Marginalized Kids

Government involvement Or Corporate funding very Difficult

Support a Night Shelter with 30-40 Kids

WAH funding for a permanent shelter’

We support the meal, partial salary, education materials and some

infrastructural support

A day shelter is supported by DC/Birmingham

5/6 Site Visits + I visited in October

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Photos

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About INSPIRATION

10 years in service

Many Government-supported Studies

Rapid Accelerated Training

NREGA

Main Challenges

Work with very marginalized Kids

Goals

Admit the kids to the school and follow up with backup coaching

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INSPIRATION - Our Involvement

INSPIRATION secretary visited Atlanta Chapter and presented their work

I visited Thrice

Atlanta supports 4 centers with 25 kids each

To reduce the costs, 4 centers are merged eventually in two bigger areas

Direct involvement in the community via Social workers

Total $2-2.5K support

Mostly donor supported project

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Photos