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 …
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Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha: A refuge for the differently-abled
Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha or SSS, is a research institute dedicated to the development and rehabilitation of differently abled children. The uniqueness of this institute is that it is committed to …
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Nirmaan: An innovative learning centre
Asha for Education supports educational resource centres which aim to improve the quality of schooling provided by different schools (government and non-government). These resource centres serve the important role of …
Payir: A model of holistic rural development
With its vision of holistic and inclusive rural development, the community-based organisation, Payir, seeks to provide the fundamental right of education to every child, in Thenur, in rural Tamil Nadu. …
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A Shelter for our Daughters
Only 10% out of 200,000 challenged children in Kerala get some form of institutional care and a vast majority of them are left to fend for themselves. The deplorable condition …
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An orphanage with a difference : Shishur Sevay
Research approximates that between 200,000 to 400,000 children in India live in orphanages . In a country where orphaned or disabled children are often subjected to the drug trade, …
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Migrant Milestones
For the nomadic children of migrant workers, who are excluded from the mainstream education system, non-formal education centres (NFE centres) are a life-giving boon. Asha for Education has been supporting …
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Rapid strides by the differently-abled
For the differently-abled school children of Shaaron Special School in rural Tamil Nadu’s Virudhanagar district, Asha for Education has been a ray of hope, literally. Since 1997, Shaaron Special …
The blind visionaries: Asha’s initiative for the visually-impaired
Vaani, a blind 18-year-old girl from Karnataka’s underdeveloped Chitra Durga District was born to a house of daily-wage labourers. Through extended family, Vaani’s father, Jayanna, learned of the Asha-funded Divya …
Work an Hour 2016 has launched
Dear Asha Patrons, “Education is teaching our children to desire the right things” – Plato …… Thank you all for supporting Asha Work An Hour (WAH) campaign during last year. …