Asha for Education

Project Brief: Asha Chennai project that builds and repairs toilets at schools that we work with through Projects Sangamam, Pearl, Thulasi and Poorna Vidhya. This will work towards improving the health and hygiene among the school children and the village.
Project Type: Capex / Infrastructure (description)
Primary Focus: health and cleanliness (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Chennai

Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Rajaraman Krishnan
Project Partner(s): Bhaskar V
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , First Floor, 85/2, Luz Avenue, Mylapore, Chennai 600004,Near Nageswara rao park,Chennai,
Tamil Nadu  600004
Tel: 91 9444404060
Stewarding Chapter: Chennai

Asha Chennai has been working with government schools all over Tamilnadu under Projects Sangamam (Thiruvallur, Kamchipuram), Poorna Vidhya (Chennai, Chengalpet), Thulasi (Villupuram, Thiruvannamalai) and Pearl (Thoothukudi, Thirunelveli). Asha’s focus in these projects has been education. Our work usually directly relates to education like providing teachers and computer teachers, giving stationery materials, educational kits and such to the schools and the children etc. We take up infrastructure work only rarely. We do recognise that Hygiene and health are extremely important for children. Good education cannot happen without good health.

The toilet facilities in many of the schools are inadequate. The children end up openly defecating during the break time. But with rising urbanization, in many of the schools there aren’t even fields near the school. Further lack of toilet facility at middle and high schools is a major cause of girls to drop out as they attain puberty. For teachers too, working in a school without toilet facilities is very difficult.

Therefore as we get donors who are interested to take up such work, we have been taking up toilet construction and repair work at various schools. For the toilet work at schools we need the school to have the space for a new toilet or an old toilet in good enough condition to at least be repairable. Further we need support from the Panchayat, the Block officers and broadly the people from the village to be able to take up those activities. As these are school that Asha has been working with and supporting for several years, we can also ensure that the toilet built or repaired is being maintained well and remains useful for the children.

Hyundai Glovis has been supporting the Project Sangamam efforts at 8 of the schools as part of the Glovis Sangamam project. They have come forward to help construct toilets where there aren’t any available, repair the toilets which are in need of repair and also provide drinking water supply for villages that lack them. The project Sugadharam is an outcome of that support.

Work done so far
As Thiruvallur we have undertaken the repair and construction of several school spanning many years. A lot of these were taken up between 2017 and 2019 with support from Hyundai Glovis.

We were also able to take up work with schools supported under Thulasi, Pearl and Poorna Vidhya project with funding from Trimble in 2019. Here is a table that shows the various works that have been done under this project.

Year	Donor	School	Description of Work
2013-14	Asha Frankfurt	PUPS Placepalayam in Thiruvallur	Construction of new toilet block with three commodes and a urinal for girls
2014-15	Asha Frankfurt	PUPS Allikuzhi in Thiruvallur	Construction of new toilet block with two commodes and a urinal for girls.
2016-17	Hyundai Glovis	PUPS Thandalam in Thiruvallur	Construction of a new toilet with 3 commodes and a urinal area for girls.
2017-18	Hyundai Glovis	PUPS Gandhigramam PUPS Elappanaidu Pettai PUPS Nemiliagaram PUPS Katchur PUPS Kannigaiper PUPS Annanagar PUMS Anandheri PUPS Ammambakkam PUPS Kuppathupalayam in Thiruvallur	Repair of toilets all all these schools. They all had toilets in various states of disrepair. Then we made functional and like new and given back to the school.
2017-18	Asha Pittsburg and Asha Frankfurt	PUMS Koppampatti and PUMS Nagalapur in Thoothukudi	At Koppampatti we constructed a new toilet block with 3 commodes and urinal area. At Nagalapuram we undertook repair work.
2018-19	Hyundai Glovis	PUMS Neyveli PUMS Athipattu PUMS Kunnavalam in Thiruvallur	These schools had toilets that required fairly major repair work. We made them functional and like new.
2018-19	Hyundai Glovis	PUMS Neyveli PUMS AthipattuPUMS Kunnavalam in Thiruvallur	These schools had toilets that required fairly major repair work. We made them functional and like new.
2019-20	Hyundai Glovis	PUMS Ramnjeri and PUPS Pudhukandigai in Thiruvallur	New toilets were built at both these schools. At Ramanjeri we constructed two blocks with 2 commodes and urinal area for boys and girls. At Pudhukandigai we constructed one such block to be shared by boys and girls.
2019-20	Hyundai Glovis	PUMS Manjakuppam PUPS Melvilagam PUPS Palavakkam PUPS Vallimapettai PUPS Kammavarpalayam PUPS Allikuzhi in Thiruvallur	All these school required minor repair work to the toilets to make them functional again.
2019-20	Trimble	PUPS Chidambarampatti in Thoothukudi	A new toilet was sanctioned and constructed in this school with 3 commodes and urinal area for girls.
2019-20	Trimble	PUPS Kumaragiri, PUMS Athikinaru in Thoothukudi	Significant repair work was required in both these schools’ toilets. They were done in late 2019.
2020	Trimble	PUMS KaathuSithamboor in Villupuram and ADWMS Nandhivaram in Kanchipuram	New toilets were built in both these places. Kaatusithamboor toilet was more or less completed before the Corona struct but Nandhivaram work still not completed by that time. So they got delayed. They were finally completed and delivered before schools reopened.

Asha will continue to take up these kinds of toilet work at schools we support.

Sep 2024 Report on Toilet Construction at Palavakkam and Kannigaiper
Feb 2024 Report on toilet repair at 3 schools
Feb 2024 Updated proposal for 2023-24
Aug 2023 Metrics for 2023-24
Jul 2023 Report on new toilet at Gengavaram
Jun 2023 Report on toilet work - Apr - June 2023
Mar 2023 Project Sugadharam extension - proposal 2023-24
Oct 2022 Report on Toilet Repair work at 2 Schools
Mar 2022 Report on Kovaachipatti Toilet Renovation and Inauguration
Feb 2022 Budget for toilet construction and repair work
Jan 2021 -
Dec 2020 Annual report for Trimble Sugadharam for 2020-21
Feb 2020 Report on toilet repair work at Kumaragiri and Athikinaru
Nov 2019 Newspaper Coverage for Glovis Sugadharam
Oct 2019 Report on Inauguration function for new toilet at Ramanjeri
Sep 2019 Report on repair work at 6 school toilets
Aug 2019 Report on Inauguration of new toilet at Chidambarampatti
Aug 2019 Report on Inauguration of new toilet at Pudhukandigai
Jul 2019 Report on Construction of new toilets at Pudhukandigai and Ramanjeri
Jul 2019 Report on Construction of new toilet at Chidambarampatti
May 2019 Report on Pudhukansigai Toilet construction till May 2019
Mar 2019 Report on Repair of three toilets in Thiruvallur
Feb 2019 Report on Bhoomi Poojai at Pudhukandigai and Ramanjeri
Dec 2018 Glovis Sugadharam proposal - Thiruvallur
Oct 2018 Trimble Sugadharam Proposal
Apr 2018 Report on Final work of Sugadharam Thiruvallur 2018
Mar 2018 Report of Phase III repairs at Thiruvallur
Mar 2018 Repair work at Nagalapuram
Dec 2017 Photos from Koppampatti Toilet Completion
Nov 2017 Photos from toilet Repairs - Part II
Oct 2017 Photos from Koppampatti Toilet Construction Part - II
Sep 2017 Project Pearl - Toilet construction details
Aug 2017 Photos from Koppampatti Toilet Construction
Jul 2017 Site Visit July 2017
Jun 2017 Toilet Repairs Thiruvallur
Apr 2017 Project Sugadharam extension - proposal 2016-17
Apr 2017 Photos from Thandalam toilet inauguration
Apr 2017 Toilet construction at the schools in Thandalam - Report
Mar 2017 Photos from Thandalam toilet painting
Mar 2017 Photos from construction of toliets
Jan 2017 final work
Nov 2016 Photos - existing state of the toilets at the schools
Oct 2016 Project Sugadharam proposal 2016
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