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“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful committed citizens can change
the world;
Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever does”
Margaret Mead
Asha for EducationBringing hope through education
IlliteracyPoverty
Child Labor
The Vicious Cycle
Is there Hope ?
Yes!
We CAN make a
DIFFERENCE !
Asha for Education
• Was started by 3 students in 1991 at UC Berkeley
• Has more than 60 chapters world-wide
• Currently supports over 410 projects in India
• Has disbursed over $6 million between 1995 and 2008
Asha Dallas was started in 1997 and currently supports 10 projects
Bharuch
Asha Dallas Projects
Kanpur
Kolkata
Nizamabad
Gurgaon
Jaipur
SANKALP (Gurgaon)
TRY (Chennai)
EDUCATION & SELF-RELIANCE FOR FARMER’S CHILDREN (Nizamabad)
GRAM VIKAS TRUST, BALWADI (Bharuch)
BACHPAN BACHAO ANDOLAN (Jaipur)
JABALA (Kolkata)
PRERANA SHISHU VIDYALAYA (Kanpur)
Chennai
Prerana Shishu Vidyalaya – Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh
Asha Dallas supports
Technology Meets Education!Current Need: $5000
To buy DVD, TV, cable wires to support Digital Study Hall
T.R.Y (To Reach You) – Chennai, Tamilnadu
Asha Dallas supports
Rehabilitates Trafficked KidsCurrent Need: $15,000
To Complete construction of “Anand” TRY Home
Gram Vikas Trust: Balwadi - Kadodara, Gujarat
Asha Dallas supports
To educate children of factory workersCurrent Need: $10,000
Construction of Balwadi in Lakhigam, Gujarat
Sankalp – Gurgaon, HaryanaAsha Dallas
supports
To educate children of migrant laborersCurrent Need: $6000
Recurring Operational Expenses
How do we do it?
Our Fundraising Activities
Notes of Hope
Indian Ocean
Strides of Hope Volunteers in Action
Our Fundraising Activities
“Over 12 million reasons to speak for why I run – that's the approximate number of children between the ages of 5 and 14 that work for a living, in India”
- Purnima Krishnan, Asha-Dallas
“ Training for a marathon, though grueling and exhausting at times, has been the best team sport that I have ever participated in“
- Viswanath Puttagunta, Asha-Dallas
Team Asha-Dallas made it’s marathon debut last year, successfully raising over $15000!
How You can Get Involved
YOU & Asha
Publicize
Support a
ProjectVoluntee
r
Support a Child (SAC)
Buy Merchandi
se
Participate in our Events
Work an Hour
(WAH)
The Marathon Program
Visit: http://www.ashanet.org/dallas Mail: [email protected]
