Asha
Mission and Objective:
- Believes in "Education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change"
- Concentrates on education of underprivileged children both in rural areas and urban slums.
- They also encourages issues like health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.
Method of work:
- They encourages formation of local groups.
- Invites funds form interested volunteers and support the NGO's by giving financial support if their project is Education related
Project Types: the type of projects that the asha project funds can be viewed as
- Non-Formal Education
- Residential School
- Formal School
- Vocation Training
- Working with Government
Some projects:
- Residential school for orphanage children in Maynampadu village of Guntur districts.
- Kushi a Balwadi school for basic foundation for village children in Kondamapalle, Chittoor Dist.
- VPS Vivekananda Public School school for slum children in hyderabad
- Ramakrishna Educational and Medical Society of Yellamma Banda, Hyderabad
Achievements:
- Projects: 385
- Funds Disbursed: $4 Million
- Chapters: 66 = 45 in the U.S. + 14 in India + 7 in Europe + Singapore + Australia.
- Volunteers: Over 1000 active volunteers
website: Asha for Education home page