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Asha for Education |
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| Name of the
Association / Organisation |
ASHA
FOR EDUCATION |
| Postal Address |
USA: P.O.Box 322, New
York, NY 10040-0322
India: A-893, Indira Nagar, Lucknow 226 016, U.P. |
| Fax |
(413) 740-5355 |
| E-Mail |
webmaster@ashanet.org |
| URL (Website) |
www.ashanet.org |
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| Asha, was born in
the summer of 1991, at the university of California, Berkeley with the efforts of group of
students who thought of ways of serving their motherland and realised that basic education
would be the best way to bring about economic change and alleviate poverty in India.
From a modest begining, today Asha has 35 chapters in the US, India and
other countries, with more than 300 active volunteers, with more than 100 projects to its
credit and total project funding exceeding $ 1 million since its inception. |
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| OBJECTIVES: |
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| Mission Statement: To catalyze socio-economic change in
India by focusing on basic education of underprivileged children of India |
| Objectives
of the Group: |
Asha for
Education is an organization dedicated to socio-economic change in India. In pursuit of
this goal, Asha focuses on basic education in the belief that education is a critical
requisite for socio-economic change. In keeping with this focus, our volunteers get
involved with and support projects that have an education-related component to them. The
objectives of this group are:
- To provide education to underprivileged children in India.
- To encourage the formation of various local groups, both in
India and U.S., to reach out to larger sections of the population.
- To support and cooperate with persons and groups already
engaged in similar activities.
- To raise the required human and other resources to achieve
the group objectives.
- To provide opportunity to individuals based in the U.S. who
wish to participate in Asha activities in India.
- To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human
life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.
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| ACTIVITIES: |
| Clearly,
identifying, researching, owning, funding, and sustaining projects has formed the core of
Asha's activities till now. Asha raises funds for its projects in a number of ways:
individual donations, corporate donations, sale of merchandise (T-shirts, calendars, mugs,
greeting cards, etc.), fundraising dinners, Indian classical music and dance concerts,
popular music concerts and many others. In the process, we also promote Indian culture
over here.
Some Asha chapters also work
towards raising awareness in appropriate forums about various issues affecting the people
of India. This awareness-raising is accomplished by organizing discussion series, invited
talks and study groups. Asha also acts as a network for various grass-roots workers and
volunteers and non-governmental organizations.
If you would like to find out more about this
organisation, its activities, and, if you would like to participate and contribute to its
efforts in any way, please contact members of the chapter nearest you. |
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