Asha Resource Center - Teacher Training
Asha Resource Center - Teacher Training
Project Brief: Carry out teacher training workshops and with teachers' active participation develop educational material
Project Type: Resource Centers (description)
Primary Focus: creating resources (description)
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Varanasi
Project Type: Resource Centers (description)
Primary Focus: creating resources (description)
Secondary Focus: children of dalits/tribals
Area: RuralSupporting Chapter Contact:
Varanasi
Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Vallabhacharya Pandey
Co-Steward: Sirish Agarwal
Project Partner(s): Mahesh Pandey
Project Address: Asha Resource Center - Teacher Training
Kaithi, Uttar Pradesh
Tel: 09815256848
Stewarding Chapter: Varanasi
Project Steward: Vallabhacharya Pandey
Co-Steward: Sirish Agarwal
Project Partner(s): Mahesh Pandey
Project Address: Asha Resource Center - Teacher Training
Kaithi, Uttar Pradesh
Tel: 09815256848
Stewarding Chapter: Varanasi
| Oct 2016 | Frankfurt | EUR 2250 |
Total = $2250
Asha has a dedicated group of volunteers in India who are involved in setting up Asha Centers of learning promoting self-sufficiency and entrepreneurship via education. The basis of the centers, all of which are in Uttar Pradesh, is that young minds need holistic development leading to self-reliance and strong values. Conventional education is only oriented towards desk jobs, therefore based on competition, which in turn gives rise to pride, prejudice and conflict. For a majority of India's children, the quality of education is so poor and so divorced from their reality that it has not been beneficial to them. The education provided at these centers is based on empowerment by imbibing the spirit of cooperation instead of competition.
Asha Centers are already playing an active role in the community by providing free education and health facilities to the villagers. The goal of the Asha Centers is to work for social change. They plan to achieve this by
* Developing a "pilot program" for a self-sustained, socially responsible community
* Acting as a community center for various grass-roots activities, such as women's empowerment, initiatives for tackling unemployment
* Establishing a school for children in the surrounding areas to provide alternative education that inculcates human values for a just human order and imparts skills for becoming self-reliant
* Teaching cottage industries such as bee-keeping, etc., to the children and adults in the community
* Networking with other organizations to share ideas and resources on development issues
* Providing support (moral & funds) for other activities, such as, Global Peach March, etc.
Asha Centers are already playing an active role in the community by providing free education and health facilities to the villagers. The goal of the Asha Centers is to work for social change. They plan to achieve this by
* Developing a "pilot program" for a self-sustained, socially responsible community
* Acting as a community center for various grass-roots activities, such as women's empowerment, initiatives for tackling unemployment
* Establishing a school for children in the surrounding areas to provide alternative education that inculcates human values for a just human order and imparts skills for becoming self-reliant
* Teaching cottage industries such as bee-keeping, etc., to the children and adults in the community
* Networking with other organizations to share ideas and resources on development issues
* Providing support (moral & funds) for other activities, such as, Global Peach March, etc.