Asha for Education

Raise $12,500 by Dec 31st 2007
Finish construction of houses (10 in all) by end April 2008

Current Status

The target fundraising goal for this project has been met, hence we are no longer accepting contributions for this project.

We will keep updating this page regarding the progress of this project. Thank you for your interest and please feel free to contact us in case of any questions..

Your participation:

Your participation can be in multiple ways:

• Contribute by way of donating money.
  Donation Information
  


• If you were looking to execute a charitable project and are interested in this one then we invite you to lead this one. We guarantee the authenticity of this project and guarantee that 100% of money will go into the cause. Please contact us if interested (Note that it will not take up much of the time including the construction piece of the equation)


• Contribute by being a sub team captain and having a target. Contact me if interested.


• Contribute by way of spreading the word about this project to your friends and/or your coworkers.

Project Team:

Vivek Agrawal	vivek.agrawal@gs.com
Raghunath Kottamasu	raghunath.kottamasu@broadridge.com
Milind Joshi	milind.joshi@gs.com
Manish Agarwal	manish.agarwal@gs.com

Project Address:

Village: Pallayamkotti; Taluka: Katumannarkudy; District: Cuddalore; State: Tamil Nadu; Country: India
Google map of Cuddalore
Detailed map of Cuddalore district (you can see Palaiyamkottai village in this map)
Official website of Cuddalore district
Wikipedia entry about Cuddalore

What will your money get:

$1250	A House
$550	Living Room
$350	Kitchen
$250	Bricks
$100	Door & Windows
$75	Roof
$50	Electric work

Bharathi Trust is a non-profit development organization working for the cause of upliftment and empowerment of Irula Tribal communities living in the interior pockets of Thiruvallur district. Since 1990, it has been working among the Irula communities in more than 60 villages spreading over 5 Taluks of the District. It has been conducting a number of development programmes such as Sangam formation, awareness camps, liaison work with government for obtaining development schemes, day care services, motivation centers for eradication of child labor etc.

Bharathi Trust was started by Siddamma, the director of the Trust. Please see below for more details about Siddamma

• Details about the trust
  
• Her Story
  
• BBC article on her works
  
• Outlook award from Sonia Gandhi
  
• Talk she gave in Seattle
  
• Irulas
  
• Fellowship and Resource Center
  
• Freedom
  
• Tsunami