United and democratic after 61 years! How?

No one gave us a chance. No one thought we will preserve democracy all these 61 years, barring a 2-year aberration during the emergency years. Statistically, India’s democracy is a …

WAH ’07 Updates

WAH ’07 was centered around Child labor. Eleven projects were showcased & over $140,000.00 were raised during the campaign. A list of the projects can be found in the link …

Statistics and Rural India

Statistics are to be interpreted with the right eyes to make some meaningful sense. We earlier saw the story of two India’s — the India shining and the tottering India; …

Sustainability

When we start getting involved in organizations like Asha, an early question we have is, “Will we have to support this project forever? How can we help more and more …

Agrarian Crisis of India Shining!

India is rapidly developing.Services sector is booming.Our GDP is increasing at 9%.We are cutting nuclear deals with USA.Our youth have the credit to buy German and Japanese cars and motorcycles. …

International Humanitarian Award for Asha

Asha for Education (“Asha”), will receive the 2007 Champaign-Urbana International Humanitarian Award in the area of Humanitarian Relief on Thursday, October 18th in Champaign, Illinois. The cities of Champaign and …

What price, our education system?

Today, Sep 5th, on Teacher’s Day, spare a thought to the education of the children of India. For one fancy moment, imagine that we are not mired in the morass …

Timbaktu Update

Timbaktu Collective in Andhra Pradesh is one of the projects supported by WAH this year. With it’s holistic approach to education and community development it is one of those model …