Our 2024 Work an Hour (WAH) campaign kicked off at the end of Labor Day weekend this year (September 2, 2024) and culminated on Gandhi Jayanthi (Gandhi-ji’s birth date) on …
Asha St. Louis: How Projects Pivoted During Trying Times
The Asha St. Louis chapter was formed in September 1996 in Washington University, St. Louis by a group of passionate students. Since then, the group has grown to encompass professionals …
Why Asha Needs an Impact Assessment Framework
By: Rajeev Annaluru (Asha volunteer, past Asha-wide Coordinator) Most of us in Asha are creatures of the corporate world where it’s common to hear adages like “What gets measured, gets done”, …
Somebody who never went to college helps children of brick kiln workers enter college
By: Dr. Sandeep Pandey, Asha Co-Founder, As originally published in Asian Tribute There may be many examples like Super 30 of Patna where children of daily wage earners are being …
Project Partner Guest Post: Plight of the Migrant Worker’s Child
By Vijaya Ramachandran Editors Note: Vijaya Ramachandran works with one of our project partners – Apna Skools (Jagriti Bal Vikas Samiti). For more, visit https://sites.google.com/site/apnaskools/. The views expressed are her …
EMPOWERED AND ENGAGED TEACHERS
The government school system has been given up as hopeless, though nearly 70% of students attend government schools. It is the only option in rural areas and for poor children. …
Looking Down Memory Lane : What I learned from the six months of Asha project site visits
By Padmanava Sen (Asha Bangalore Volunteer) I have been involved with Asha for Education since 2006. I was part of multiple Asha chapters (Atlanta, Irvine and Bangalore) as I moved …
Asha Chennai Assessments
Oral Assessments at Asha Chennai Projects Background At Asha Chennai we have been supporting about 25 government schools spread across Tamilnadu. With this kind of scale we felt we need …
Asha project BWF featured in India Currents Magazine
Asha’s project partner – Borderless World Foundation – was featured in the August edition of India Currents Magazine. See here for the full story. A short excerpt is below. …
Site visit to Kalyania – Prayas Centre
Abhyuday Mandal who volunteers with Asha for Education, Athens & Atlanta Chapters visited Kalyania – Prayas Centre on December 26, 2015. His observations during the site visit are below …