asha atlanta1 asha for education - providing hope for tomorrow
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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