Current Projects
Mathru Foundation
Project Brief: Arjuna Awardee and Padmasree Malathi Krishnamurthy Holla, afflicted by polio at infancy started Mathru Foundation to serve the physically challenged with Motherly care.
Project Steward: Arvind Rao
Project Partner(s): malathi holla
Project Type: Disabilities
Primary Focus: children with disabilities
Secondary Focus: girls
Area: Urban
Siddamma Fellowship
Project Brief: 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.
Project Steward: Sowmya Suryanarayanan
Project Partner(s): Siddamma E
Project Type: Fellowships
Primary Focus: creating resources
Secondary Focus: vocational training
Area: Rural
Girirajpura School (GSK)
Project Brief: Traditional education does not seem to lead anywhere for agrarian communities - it does not provide meaningful employment and the educated person is useless to extant agrarian patterns. Uday aims to bring relevance into education.
Project Steward: Mohit Sood
Project Partner(s): Shubham Garg
Project Type: Alternative Education
Primary Focus: other
Area: Rural
Cuddalore (Tamil Nadu) Flood Relief – Nov 2015
Project Brief: In the wake of the Cuddalore floods in November 2015, Siddamma is working on providing disaster relief to 520 Irula Familes.
Project Steward: Sowmya Suryanarayanan
Project Partner(s): Siddamma E
Project Type: Other
Primary Focus: other
Area: Rural
Khushboo Welfare Society
Project Brief: Khushboo Welfare Society- A center for children with mental and multiple disabilities, provides special education, vocational training, therapeutic assistance, and early intervention programs.
Project Steward: Rangakrishnan Srinivasan
Project Partner(s): Rakesh Jhinsi
Project Type: Disabilities
Primary Focus: children with disabilities
Secondary Focus: vocational training
Area: Rural
Nethra Vidyalaya
Project Brief: 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.
Project Steward: Vandana Mallempati
Project Partner(s): Pakalapati Lakshmi
Project Type: Special Needs
Primary Focus: children with disabilities
Area: Rural
Past Projects
Asha Deepa – School for Blind
Project Brief: Asha Deepa School for the Blind, Bidar (ADSFB) is a residential school for blind children from the rural and semi-urban areas in Bidar and surrounding districts.
Project Steward: Arvind Rao
Project Partner(s): Sanju Kumar
Project Type: Disabilities
Primary Focus: children with disabilities
Area: Urban
Bharathi Trust Resource Center
Project Brief: Bharathi Trust : Resource Center
Project Steward: Bhaskar Bharath
Project Partner(s): Siddamma E
Project Type: Resource Centers
Primary Focus: vocational training
Secondary Focus: creating resources
Area: Rural
Humana People to People – Sahibabad
Project Brief: An academy for mostly children of migrant labourers in a UP Industrial Area near Delhi. It is run by Humana People to People India.
Project Steward: Itisha Tyagi
Project Partner(s): Karen Thorst
Project Type: Formal Schools
Primary Focus: children of migrant workers
Secondary Focus: children who are working
Area: Urban
Nammalvar – Fellowship
Project Brief: Promotion of Sustainable and Ecological Food Production in India. Transformation of Agriculture into a system of community based self reliant and ecologically sound and sustainable, poison free food production.
Project Steward: Vinod Viswanath
Project Partner(s): Govindaswamy Nammalvar
Project Type: Fellowships
Primary Focus: creating resources
Secondary Focus: other
Area: Rural
Prasanna Jyothi
Project Brief: Prasanna Jyothi is an orphange for young girls on the outskirts of Bangalore.
Project Steward: Geethapriya Raghavan
Project Partner(s): Sundari Srinivasan
Project Type: Child Home
Primary Focus: girls
Secondary Focus: to go to formal school
Area: Urban