KHUSHBOO WELFARE SOCIETY 

A center for children with mental and multiple disabilities, provides special education, vocational training, therapeutic assistance, and early intervention programs.

Asha-Austin supports ~70% of the salaries associated with these new initiatives staff, and is about ~10% of Khushboo’s operational needs. Asha-Austin, knowing as to how important, it is for an organization to retain its dedicated staff, especially teachers, decided to fund this project towards remuneration of salaries.

Mathru Foundation

Arjuna Awardee and Padmasree Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla, afflicted by polio at infancy started Mathru Foundation to serve the physically challenged with Motherly care. Asha for Education is supporting the daily needs of the school such as salaries of the support staff, food and living expenses of the children.

VIKASA TARANGINI – NETHRA VIDYALAYA

Nethra Vidyalaya is a residential school for the visually challenged children in and around Vishakapatnam. Asha provides support to this school by funding teachers’ salaries and for providing food, accomidation, education and primary healthcare to our students. We require resources for teaching nine areas of the expanded core curriculum: Compensatory, Sensory efficiency, Assistive Technology, Independent living, social Skills, Orientation & mobility, Career education, Recreation & leisure and Self-determination.  

ASHA TRUST – NAVJYOTI SWAWALAMBAN SEWA SANSTHAN

The organization provides primary education in 2 main centers and non-formal education in about 10 centers including 6 kishori kendras and more than 30 self help groups in eastern Uttar Pradesh. The organization also runs vocational training centers and supports various social causes. Asha Chicago provides support for teachers’ salaries, training and school supplies.

ASHA TRUST – SANGAMAM RAJATALAB

Sangamam project focusses on teaching computer science to government primary school children in Rajatalab, Varanasi area in Uttar Pradesh, India. In addition, the project aims to supplement the teaching of other subjects like Maths, Science, English etc. Though initial focus will be on teaching computer science, the hope is that the teachers will also start mapping online teaching content UP state board curriculum. 

GANJAM DISTRICT ORTHOPAEDICALLY HANDICAPPED WELFARE ASSOCIATION

Project Samarth’s (formerly GDOHWA – Ganjam District Orthopaedically Handicapped Welfare Association) goals are:

• To help children with physical deformity ascertain his/her rights.
• To educate parents, family members and the community to make the surroundings of the partially able conducive for his/her easy socializing.
• To help them overcome discrimination and gain social support and respect.
• To provide them education up to 5th standard
• To help them get training on various vocations, so that they become self employed and self dependent
• To aware the community about the utility of education and bring their participation in developing educational standard of the villages.
• To create opportunity for the eligible children with disabilities to use their potential to successfully complete the standard of primary education. 

ANTYODOY ANATH ASHRAM PAUSHI – KHAGENDRA SISHU SIKSHA KENDRA (AAA-KSSK)

KSSK is a free primary school in Paushi village in WB, India, catering to children aged 4-12 from the ashram, and poor families in surrounding villages. Asha for Educations’ monetary assistance to KSSK can help the school to continue to provide a holistic learning environment free of cost for these children. The funding will support the salaries/honorarium of teachers and staff, school supplies, transportation for students, electricity and telephone line, and annual administrative expenditures.

Fellowship Siddamma

Siddamma is working on creating a community resource center to document community based knowledge and provide a base for communities to test eco-friendly alternatives in agriculture, pottery, dairy, herbs and energy.

The resource center does not only serve as a laboratory for the villages, but also provides an opportunity to learn what we should be teaching our children. The center would double up as a fulltime school for children who have dropped out from the regular schooling system and can benefit from alternative education and vocational skills.