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Coordinators

• Chapter Coordinator- Vinod Viswanath

• Project Coordinator- Sanjeev Ranganathan

• Treasurer- Anita Komanduri

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An example Asha project:Seva Chakkara Orphanage, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

A home for 100 children in all grades from pre-school to college.

• Runs a primary school for classes I-V

• Children from class VI go to local schools

• Provides vocational skills to the children on a case-by-case basis

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How we worked with Seva Chakkara• First visit in Dec ‘99 by an Asha volunteer.

• Feb ‘01 approved support for teacher’s salaries.

• May ‘02: Started innovative fund-raiser - Support-A-Child which raises $20,000/year towards basic living expenses, health-care and education.

Working with the project we realized that the basic requirements of food, shelter and health-care needed to be met before education.

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– Next, we worked with the orphanage on providing a permanent home.

– $69,400 was raised through many innovative fundraisers including the marathon program at Austin.

Continued involvement with Seva Chakkara

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– Events are decided and organized by volunteer interest and initiatives.

– Support-A-Child program– Events for the Austin Community – Plays,

game fairs movie screenings etc.– Marathon Program is the biggest fundraiser

and is the backbone – raised $80K in the last 2 years

– The requirements keep growing and we need help!

Fundraising

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Why Join Asha?

• Great way to reach out to the underprivileged.

• Growing organization at the student level.

• Flexibility of volunteering in events of your choice.

• Interact with people from diverse backgrounds.

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How to get involved?

• Join one of the committees:

– Event Planning Committee

– Publicity Committee

– Projects Committee

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Event Planning Committee

• Brainstorm on ideas for fundraising or awareness events.

• Organize events such as concerts, movies etc.

• Find sponsors for these events.

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Publicity Committee

• Responsible for publicity materials e.g. flyers, ads for Asha events

• Tabling, recruiting more volunteers• Writing press releases and contacting media

before events.• Draft proposals to secure funds for publicity

materials.• Maintain the website.

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• Actively participate in learning from projects and selection of projects at the chapter.

• Maintain the website for each project.• Keep track of donors and sponsored kids in

support-a-child projects• Keep members of aware of ongoing-projects

Project Committee