Current Projects
Sangamam Rajatalab
Project Brief: 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
Project Steward: Saurabh Dixit
Project Partner(s): Suresh Rathaur
Project Type: Educational Experiments
Primary Focus: creating resources
Secondary Focus: remedial education
Area: Rural
Navjyoti Swawalamban Sewa Sansthan
Project Brief: The organization provides primary education in 2 main centers and non-formal education in about 8 centers. The organization also runs vocational training centers and supports various social causes.
Project Steward: Gaurav Agarwal
Project Partner(s): Nandlal Master
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers
Primary Focus: children of dalits/tribals
Secondary Focus: children who are working
Area: Rural
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: Children with 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: Children with 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: Children with 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