Berkeley

BerkeleyBerkeley, CA, USA
Current Projects:6
Previous Projects:23
Established:0
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1AHEAD
AHEAD is an organisation working for education and rehabilitation of the mentally, autistic severely disabled children coupled with economic handicap as well.
West Bengal
2Amar Seva Sangam
Setting up of a series of Respite Centres for disabled children
Tamil Nadu
3ARPAN Society - Awantika Vidya Bhawan
Awantika Vidya Bhawan is a Nursery and KG1-12 school run by the ARPAN Society. The school imparts formal education to poor children in villages ~30km from Bhopal. ASHA is currently funding teachers at the school.
Madhya Pradesh
4CAST - Community Action for Social Transformation
Located in a dry, drought-prone and economically marginal region southwest of Tirunelvelli district, these crèches would help the mothers to be able to go to work. It will also encourage the elder siblings (particularly the girl children) to be...
Tamil Nadu
5Dhaturi Tola (Ballia)
Asha will be helping to improve the infrastructure of the school in Dhaturi Tola.
Uttar Pradesh
6Fellowship: Sanju Kumar
Poverty alleviation through Micro Credit Program
Karnataka
7Guria Swayam Sevi Sansthan
Formal/Non formal education of children from red light communities
Uttar Pradesh
8Helen Keller Insitute, Vijaya
Hellen Keller Institute for Blind Deaf and Dumb Girls in Bhadrak.
Orissa
9Jamghat - A Group of Street Children
Jamghat aims to help children living and working on the streets of Delhi re-join society by offering opportunities for street children and society alike to make changes. ASHA is supporting the 24 hour shelter with uniforms, tutors and books.
Delhi
10Jhansi Project
Provide a school for girls in the town
Uttar Pradesh
11Joint Womens Programme - Mera Sahara
Mera Sahara, a project implemented by the Joint Womens Programme, a Delhi based NGO runs a school for slum children of Nithari village in NOIDA, UP. ASHA is helping them open another center which will enable up to 100 more children to attend school.
Uttar Pradesh
12Kabir in the Schools (in alliance with Eklavya)
Pilot project on using the singing and discussion of Kabir poetry to promote tolerance and nonsectarianism
Madhya Pradesh
13Kaithi Beekeeping
To set up a Research-Documentation-Training Center in the area of bee-keeping and cultivation and processing of medicinal and aromatic plants.
Uttar Pradesh
14Khairachati - Prabhat English High School
The village located near the cosmopolitan region near Kharagpur. The other schools located in the area are costly and it is often difficult for the village children to go to school. This school provides primary education for 30 students.
West Bengal
15Kokila Vikas Ashram
To enhance the running condition of nine venture schools in Assam which are being run by contributions from local people.In this project it is proposed to provide some furniture, reading and playing materials to two such schools run in the area.
Assam
16Library Storage Project
Schools supported by Asha Chennai need to buy bookshelves to house donated books
Tamil Nadu
17MSE Trust
Creches for children of parents who work at construction sites.
Tamil Nadu
18Nevre - Dhamanase Secondary Education Society
Maharashtra
19Pathchala
Pathchala was established to provide education to poor and homeless children. This organization was conceived by Smt. Indrani Ganguly in 1997 when she came across a number of innocent children simply wasting their energy and time in way-side aimless
West Bengal
20REWARD - Teachers
Salary support for the ad hoc teachers appointed by the PTA in schools where the government is yet to appoint the full complement of teachers.
Tamil Nadu
21Rishi Pragatisheel Shikshan Sanstha - Little Stars School
School for 900+ children from a slum area in Varanasi, nursery to Class 11.
Uttar Pradesh
22Sahityaratna Lokshahir Annabhau Sathe Bahuudeshiya Samajik Sanstha - SAKHI
Sakhi provides slum girls with resources to improve their literacy and numeracy skills and builds social confidence for girls in professional settings.
Maharashtra
23Samarpan Foundation - Injustice of Justice (Support for Prisoners)
Injustice for Justice Project seeks to provide educational and vocational training to inmates, especially teenagers, at Tihar Jail.
Delhi
24SANGATI
For more information on the Sangati kit and the Avehi-Abacus project you can write to [email protected]
Gujarat
25Sevalaya
Sevalaya is a non-profit organization that has been working to provide free education to orphans and disadvantaged children in the community. They need funding for notebooks from us for this year.
Tamil Nadu
26Sreenarayana Sevika Samajam
An all-girls orphanage in Aluva, Kerala.
Kerala
27Udayan Care - Shalini Fellows Summer Program
The Udayan Shalini Fellowship program provides support to girls from 11th grade till the end of graduation. It is normally a 5-6 year program. Asha is supporting a summer school training program for 50 fellows.
Delhi
28Vidnyanvahini
Maharashtra
29WAYSS
WAYSSS Asha School in the Turakapalem Village, Guntur conduct classes through 5th grade for children of local labourers. In addition a vocational training is being run to teach sewing to the women folk in the village
Andhra Pradesh