asha honor projects pipeline

Mission UQE 2047

Honor, Oct 2nd, 2004

Asha Honor

Projects Pipeline

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Asha Honor| Oct 2nd, 2004

Outline

I. Introduction to AshaII. Asha Honor Projects PipelineIII. Summary of Funding Needs

IV. Backup slides - Road to UQE

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Motivation

Suffering Ignorance (Not Knowing)

Poverty (Not Having)

Apathy (Not Acting on good thoughts)

SolutionsEducation

Economy

Action

Code of HonorVision (never lose sight of the strategic direction)

Emotional Intelligence (empathy – visceral over cerebral thinking)

Logic (built on a solid facts base)

Attention to Detail (deep dive)

Courtesy (respect for the individual)

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Motivation

Why Educate?Constitutional Right – Free & Compulsory education for children age 6-14 yrsPopular DemandHuman CapitalJoy of LearningIndividual well being with critical enquirySocial progress – education leads to actionPolitical participation – healthier democracySocial Justice

What is Education?“By education I mean the all round drawing out of body, mind and spirit” MK Gandhi

“the highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capableof dealing with life as a whole” Jiddu Krishnamurti

“a right which enables individuals and communities to act on reflection” Rabindranath Tagore

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Motivation

"Disabled and women in India are treated worse than animals"Jagdish Chander, Asha Syracuse

"98% of those who are disabled are left without education or jobs in India"Prof Vileen Shah, Social Science Dept, Harold Washington College, Chicago

Jagdish & Vileen are the first visually impaired volunteers of India

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Action We have a strong bias for actionFocus on Basic EducationEducation is central to everything we doApolitical, Secular We do not enter electoral politicswe support tolerance of diverse faithsVolunteerismWe are driven by committed worldwide volunteers from all walks of lifeDecentralized, Flat StructureWe favor team work through cooperation and consensusWe disfavor rigid hierarchiesAccountabilityWe hold ourselves accountable to the communities we impact, volunteers who give time, donors who give funds and to the partnering organizations we work withTransparencyWe conduct our work in a manner that is open to independent analysis and constructive criticism from the publicCourtesyBy demonstrating the highest standards of behavior in all interactions, we make volunteering in Asha a positive experience to look forward toZero Bribe PolicyWe advance Asha’s projects through honorable wayswithout supply of bribes

Core Values of Asha

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Asha Project Cycle

T0 Research to understand grass roots issuesDevelop a project proposal with site visit reports, vision, budget breakdown

T1 Review of the proposal at an Asha chapter

T2 Raise funds to meet the needTrack progress of the project

Q Fully Qualified projectSupport till self-reliance

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Asha for Education

1.6 M $ per year; 500 volunteers, over 400 projectsEducating 100,000 children in 18 states of India

Mission - To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children

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Asha Honor Focus Group

Mission – UQE 2047, Aug 15 10 active volunteers Engaged in and supporting numerous projects all over Chennai, Tamilnadu and India

► Pride - Infrastructure, teacher support for fishermen community

► TRY - Mainstreaming children of sex workers

► Scholarships - Tuition fees for children from isolated low income families

► Build - Non formal education to children of brick kiln laborers

► Trigger - Mainstreaming children with disabilities

► Udavum Karangal - Supporting needs of orphaned children

► Asha Yoga - Advancing physical education through Ashtanga Yoga training

► Sebama foundation - Overseeing construction of hostel for children with disabilities

► SETWIN - Improving quality of education for Dalit children

► SACSAS - Quality Education for tribal children Many proposals in the pipeline 2000 children impacted so far Reaching out to 300 villages by end of year 2005

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Asha Honor Projects Pipeline

Timeline Project NameT0 Research to understand grass roots issues

Develop a project proposal Divakaruni Foundationwith site visit reports, vision, budget breakdown Star Search

T1 Review of the proposal at an Asha chapter

T2 Raise funds to meet the need Build, Pride, Track progress of the project

Q Fully Qualified project TRY, Scholarships, Trigger,Support till self-reliance Udavum Karangal

Sebama FoundationSETWINConfidence (BCT)SACSAS

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Asha Honor Projects Pipeline

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Project Build

Partner:Pasumai Trust, Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu

Type: Non-Formal Education Centers

AreaRural

Focus:Creating awareness about child labor in brick-kiln industryProviding basic literacy and numeric skills, basic nutritionMotivating children to continue their formal educationCampaigning to change policies of the government to accommodate needs of migrant laborer children

Funds Needed$15,000 to support education of 200 children in brick kiln industry for period Sept 1, 2004 – Aug 30, 2005

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2000 - Leaky class rooms

2002 - Asha volunteers fix leaky roof

2004 –Asha helps deliver permanent solutionSeveral organizations cooperate

Project Pride

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ScholarshipsPartner:TRY, Mudichur, Tamil Nadu

Type: Formal Education

Area:Metro

Focus:Children from low income group, isolated familiesTypical family background as follows:

Father is old and without job; Mother on temporary job; Low incomeFather expired; Mother helper in hospital; keen on studiesFather daily wage coolie; Mother housewife; No steady incomeFather ran away; Mother cook at TRY homeDisabled child; incomplete palate; needs speech therapyFather postman; family debtFather driver; Mother housewife,very low income canf afford to pay fees

Tuition fees as well as monthly mentoring support provided

Funds Needed[Funds successfully raised for June1, 2004 - Aug30, 2005]$3000 needed to support education of 29 children for period June1, 2005 – Aug 30, 2006

E. Sathya

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TRY (To Reach You)

Partner:TRY

Type: Formal education

AreaSuburb

Focus:Mainstreaming children of sex workersConstructing a permanent home for 15-50 childrenIndia-wide connected action

Funds NeededSuccessfully Raised over $35,000 this year

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Trigger

Partner:Vidya Vriksha & several other organizations, universities

Type: Formal education, vocational training, technology education

AreaMetro

Focus:Mainstreaming children with disabilities

Funds Needed$2000 for conducting needs assessment survey

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Trigger - 5 Zonal ProjectsNorth (Uttar Pradesh)

Helpline Providing information and counseling for people with disabilities

Partner - ASTHA

East (Manipur, Sikkim)Tribal Empowerment

Educating tribal children, especially those with disabilities Partners – Asha India, JNMIH

South (Tamil Nadu*, Andhra Pradesh) Lead to Light

Producing and circulating multilingual braille magazines School & hostel for Mentally, Physically impaired

Building a girls boardingPartners – Vidya Vriksha, Sebama Foundation

West (Rajasthan, Maharashtra) Look ahead

Providing equipment and software for job-oriented computer training Partners – Drishti Viklang Sangh, Kamla Mehta School for blind girls

Centre (Madhya Pradesh) Sambhavna

Facilitating a survey of survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster Partner - Sambhavna

* Also Ann FoundationSoftware consultant for visually impaired

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Project LibraryEstablishing libraries through n-logue –Tulika – Asha partnershipVillage Valaicheripatti, Tamilnadu

14 High Quality Tulika Tamil/English BooksetsDelivered to 14 rural n-logue kiosks

Typical nlogue Kiosk

Inauguration !Asha supported library

Results

Chief Guest

Start to Finish in 10 Months

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Project site No of Kiosks Village names

1 Alagumalai 3 Perunthur, Koduvai, Alambadi

2 Nellikuppam 4 Anukampattu, Pathrikuppam, Vadalore, Valapattu

3 Melur 3 Valaicheripatti, Ulagapichampatti, Puthuthamaraipatti

4 Thiruvallur 1 Vidaiyur (2sets)

5 Theni 2 Veerapandi, Palaichettipatti

Project Library covered 13 villages in Phase I

Getting ready to cover 100 villages by end of 2005

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Project Confidence

Partner:Bhagavatula Charitable Trust (BCT), Vishakapatnam dt, AP

Type: Non-Formal Education Centers, Vocational Training

AreaRural

Focus:Raising confidence level of rural children including cowherdsAchieving Universal Elementary Education in VishakapatnamImpacting 60-100 villages and plan to expand to 250 villages

Funds NeededFunds sufficient for 2004Needed for 2005:Rs.12,09,000 ($25,000) (recurring costs)Rs.25,00,000 ($50,000) (new proposal)

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Project SACSAS

Partner:SACSAS Academy, Moirang, Manipur

Type: Formal Education Centers

AreaRural

Focus:Providing quality elementary education to tribal childrenMotivating them to continue formal education

Funds Needed$4,000 by 2005

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Asha Honor Financial Needs SummaryFor Sept 1, 2004 – Aug 30, 2005

Project Location Focus Funding Needed1. Build Tamil Nadu Children of brick kiln laborers $ 15,000 Rs 7.5 Lakhs2. Admin Tamil Nadu Infrastructure at Asha Home $ 2,000 Rs 1 Lakh3. Scholarships Tamil Nadu Tuition fees (low income families) $ 3,000 Rs 1.5 Lakh4. Pride Tamil Nadu Teachers (Fishermen children) $ ??? Rs ???5. Ud Karangal Tamil Nadu Orphaned children $ 2,000 Rs 1 Lakh6. TRY Tamil Nadu Children of sex workers Achieved target7. Trigger India-wide Children with disabilities $ 2000 Rs 1 Lakh8. Library India-wide Delivering libraries to villages $ 8000 Rs 4 Lakh9. Irulas Tamil Nadu Freeing Bonded laborers Proposal in progress

Total $ 32,000 Rs 16 Lakhs

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Asha Honor Focus GroupThe Team Jeba Durai, Coordinator, Pride project steward MA, Public Administration, Madras University Sathya Priya, Treasury focus group MA, Social Work (Stella Maris University) Dhanalakshmi, Build/Trigger project steward Grass roots expert Geetha Durai, Treasurer Loyola College, University of California, LA Bhami, Signatory Founding member Chandravel Chamy, TRY founder, project steward MA, Social Work Sasi Satish, Scholarships project steward BSc, Computer Science, Pondicherry

university Shanti Badrinarayanan, Trigger project adviser Educationist, Founder, Sai Srishty Anjana Badrinarayanan, Library project steward Ethiraj College Siddhamma, Irula project steward Grass roots expert, Asha Fellow Murthy, Pasumai Trust Founder Grass roots expert, Migrant laborers Ranjith, Fundraising focus group IIM, Lucknow D P Prakash, volunteer IIT Madras, UCLA, IBM, Vermont, USA Vileen Shah Professor, Washington College, Chicago, USA

Advisors Prof Dilip Veeraraghavan Professor, Humanities Dept, IIT Madras Krishnaswamy Founder, Vidya Vriksha

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Backup Slides

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The Asha Learning Curve&

Road to UQE

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Each of the 400 Asha projects today have a unique combination of these attributes (except *)

(1999-2004)

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Begin with the End in Mind

After 13 years Asha has helped educate only 100,000 children

180 million kids are out of school

We touched only 0.06% of the problem

To avoid being a sideshow we must impact the mainstream

We need a strategy for large scale change

Search for Replicable, Scalable, Sustainable solutions

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54 years since UEE mandate written in Constitution

Kerala, Himachal, Mizoram – the only succes stories

Avg Indian adult has < 2 yrs of schooling

400 million Indians never read a single book in their life

69 million boys, 108 million girls aged 6-14 years out of school

Pace of improvement slow, illiterates on the rise

<2% of budget going into education

Collective Team Grade for Indo People C minus (underperforming)

Mission – Restore Honor to India Target – By 2022 Aug 15 – B+ gradeTarget – By 2047 Aug 15 – A+ grade

Literacy growth curve

Report Card

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New Outlook

"Begin with the End in Mind"First of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey

The end is UQEEvery child in every one of 700,000 villages in India

to have access to Quality Education

View problem of India as a wholeEmphasis on India-wide connected action

“Trigger a self sustaining solution"Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras

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Asha Learning Curve (1991-2004)

Stage 10 - Collective Team Goal - UQE before 2047 Aug 15 Asha Honor Focus group

Stage 9 - Move to village-centric action from project-centric focus

Stage 8 - Use IT to as a key lever

Stage 7 - Cooperate for Large scale impact

Stage 6 - Evolve into a People’s movement

Stage 5 - Create models for sustainable development

Stage 4 - Connect education to livelihood

Stage 3 - Greater awareness of Ground Realities

Stage 2 - Projects-centric Action

Stage 1 - Do something, anything

Asha-nlogue Partnership

Space

Typical Asha projects

ExperiencedVolunteers

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Connect the Dots

Asha Honor focus group working to connect the dots

Mission - To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children

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Roadmap to UQE in India1. Declare and communicate UQE in India as a top national priority.

2. Publish a roadmap to UQE with measurable milestones and a deadline (2047 is suggested based on data)

3. Build capacity of partnering organizations already engaged in community development.

4. Drive projects and innovate wherever necessary.

5. Define metrics of progress (identify tangible and intangible components to socio-economic progress)

6. Establish decentralised but coordinated zonal structures in India

7. Evolve and install Asha internal processes that support the long term objective.

8. Facilitate UQE in the smaller Indian states like Sikkim, Manipur early on (generate early results, earn credibility, infect with excitement, lead with momentum.)

9. Invite all partnering organizations to express support to the UQE mission and collaborate.

10. To leverage, impact children segment-wise, offering high quality, deep solutions (eg. Disabled, sex worker, street, laborers, rural, tribal, diseased)

11. Measure progress of Indo people to target on every August 15th (move with sense of urgency, take over the mind share from depressing gloom-doom news)

12. Communicate required run-rate effectively, as one team with one voice, until UQE mission is achieved through diverse media – magazines,online,TV, radio-encourage India-wide teamwork.

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