Asha for Education-Dallas Chapter

Dallas Chapter

Mission: To catalyze socio-economic change through education of underprivileged children in India.

Current Projects

#	Project	Chapter(s) Funding	State
1	Arya Samaj Swaroop Nagar Seva Samiti - Prerana Shishu Vidyalaya Some school teachers and their students mooted the idea (in 1985) of starting an adult education centre in a locality Choti Gutiya in Swaroop Nagar, Kanpur inhabited predominantly by the economically weaker and socially backward segment of the societ	Dallas	UTTAR PRADESH
2	Bal Ashram Trust Asha is supporting the schools run by BBA in Viratnagar in Rajasthan. These schools cater to the children of the nomadic Banjara community in the area.	Dallas	RAJASTHAN
3	Gandhigram Trust Santhi School for the Speech and Hearing impaired	Dallas	TAMIL NADU
4	Gram Vikas Trust - Balwadi project Gram Vikas Trust known as GVT is a non-profit organization established in the year 1999.. Asha Dallas is evaluating to support Balwadi education at Dahej and Kadodara.	Atlanta, CentralNJ, Dallas, Work an Hour	GUJARAT
5	Sarva Vidya Trust Sarva Vidya Trust supports deserving high school students (with a focus on girl children) with scholarships and orients them with options in the paramedical field. The students who get average marks are encouraged to take up one year certification or	Dallas, Stanford	TAMIL NADU

Past Projects

#	Project	Chapter(s) Funding	State
1	Accelerated Reading Program Accelerated Reading Program: This project is directed towards underprivileged kids in Government schools of Karnataka, India. Though enrolled in schools, one in two kids failed to graduate or dropped out. One key reason is the lack of learning and as...	Dallas	KARNATAKA
2	Asha Center - Kanpur	Dallas, General Funds, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Work an Hour	UTTAR PRADESH
3	Asha Trust - Education and Self-Reliance for Farmer Scholarships for children affected by the suicides of the farmers in the Nizamabad area.	Dallas, Toledo	ANDHRA PRADESH
4	Asha Trust - Organic Fertilizer by Prajnalaya Prajnalaya gives shelter and contributes to the development of the pupils belonging to the poorest of the poor of the society orphans, handicapped, spastic children etc. The school also has a residential hostel named ASHTHA	Atlanta, Austin, Berkeley, Dallas, Madison	ASSAM
5	Beena Handa Project: A center run by Ms. Beena Handa and others. The children from the nearby slum come and learn to spin the wheel. Classes are held off and on. On friday afternoon they all go to the Gandhi samadhi at Rajghat and do prathana bajans. Other even...	Dallas	DELHI
6	Cyclone Aila Relief in WB This project is to support the rescue efforts led by Mukti and BTS for the people affected by Cyclone Aila in West Bengal	Athens, Atlanta, Berkeley, Cornell, Dallas, DC, General Funds, NYC/NJ, Portland, UFlorida, Yale	WEST BENGAL
7	Haritha Ecological Institute To record and edit 30 Lecture Videos and 10 Experiment Videos for Class 7 Math & Science and upload videos to Digital Study Hall for open access to all.	Dallas, Mid-Hudson Valley	ANDHRA PRADESH
8	Jabala Action Research Organization Asha Dallas is supporting the Kalabagan school for children in the Kalabagan slum	Dallas	WEST BENGAL
9	Marrur Government Elementary School The main focus is to add more classrooms to the government school to avoid school dropouts	Dallas	ANDHRA PRADESH
10	MGM Rotary Special School for Mentally Retarded Children	Dallas	KERALA
11	MICDA - Mother India Community Development Association The objective of the project is to provide access to basic education to the children of the poorest families who are recently settled in Vidyutsadasivapuram village, Chittor District, Andhra Pradesh.	Dallas, Delaware, Seattle, Silicon Valley, Stanford	ANDHRA PRADESH
12	MS3 - Manaviya Shiksha Sanskar Sansthan Provide basic education to the children of migrant laborers and establish an institute with 3-yr participatory courses that promotes education with humanistic values.	Dallas, NYC/NJ, Seattle, Silicon Valley	UTTAR PRADESH
13	Odanadi Seva Samsthe Odanadi Seva Samsthe aims to empower and rehabilitate sexually-exploited women and children.	Boston/MIT, CentralNJ, Cornell, Dallas, DC, Irvine, Los Angeles, NYC/NJ, Princeton, Seattle, Silicon Valley, UIUC	KARNATAKA
14	Project WHY Project WHY is an attempt to achieve community transformation through education, serving 600+ students from urban slums in New Delhi.. ASHA Seattle supports Project WHY to enable sustained growth and planned expansion.	Canada, Dallas, Seattle	DELHI
15	Rotary Special School for Mentally Retarded The goal of the Rotary School is to enable and empower the children so as to be able to support themselves. The kind of education imparted by the Rotary School will empower them with the skills needed to support themselves. The final goal is to give	Dallas	KERALA
16	Saath Saath is an organization committed to bring about long lasting changes in slums of Ahmedabad. NFEP is a unique program that requires the beneficiaries to pay a non-token amount of money for the services they receive.	Cornell, Dallas, DC, Los Angeles, Yale	GUJARAT
17	SACSAS ACADEMY To help develop our Manipur society (which is right now in back gear) the very first thing that we should come up with is quality education. Children of extremely low-income family should be given quality education to bring socio-economic change.	Dallas, Houston, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Orlando, Work an Hour	MANIPUR
18	SANKALP Sankalp is a school for the children of the dwellers of the urban slums near Gurgaon, Haryana	Cincinnati, Dallas, Work an Hour	HARYANA
19	Shartul Foundation Shartul Foundation is for children with special needs. Any child of any age with a temporary or permanent special need can join. As non- profit organization, they aim at helping maximum number of such children through their activities; special ...	Dallas	MAHARASHTRA
20	Shikshana Gangothri Kolar District is one of the backward Districts of Karnataka. There is a need to address education especially in the rural areas of this district. Shikshana Gangothri is an Integrated Education model focused at all 3 levels-Preschools, Schools, Adult	Dallas, Flint	KARNATAKA
21	Shoshit Seva Sangh SSS is a residential school that provides education to the most exploited community, the Mushars in Bihar.	Dallas	BIHAR
22	Society for Education and Action (SEA) Society of Education and Action (SEA) is an NGO working to improve the quality of life in the fishermen community of villages near Mahabalipuram, TN. Asha Dallas is supporting SEA's motivation centers and teachers' salaries.	Dallas, Work an Hour	TAMIL NADU
23	Sotai Education Project: Bhagwan Sri Ram Academy The school provides basic education to students who otherwise don't have any access to education in this remote village in Harayana	Dallas, UIUC	HARYANA
24	TRY - To Reach You Shelter for children rescued from trafficking	Boston/MIT, Dallas, General Funds, Purdue, Silicon Valley, Syracuse, Work an Hour	TAMIL NADU
25	Vatsalya Trust Vatsalya Trust is a charitable organization which has been working for the past 26 years to rehabilitate destitute children in Mumbai by way of several projects. Asha for education will be helping out with sustenance of orphans with disability.	Dallas	MAHARASHTRA

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