Asha Trust - Asha Kaithi Bal Pustakalay

Project Brief: Asha Boston funds 2 mobile library, book bank, few libraries in villages and an on-site e-library at Asha Kaithi.
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: children of migrant workers (description)

Secondary Focus: creating resources

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact: Boston
Status: current / ongoing
Project Steward: Akshay Bhole
Project Partner(s): Deen Singh
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , Kaithi,,Varanasi,
Uttar Pradesh  221116
Tel: 919415256848
Stewarding Chapter: Boston
Sep 2025BostonUSD 6404
Sep 2024BostonUSD 5975
Sep 2023BostonUSD 3607
Sep 2022BostonUSD 3267

Total = $19253

The mobile library is in the form of an Asha kaithi volunteer traveling to a few villages in the area in a week to expand the reach of books to children of migrant laborers who work in brick kilns in the area.
The on-site e-library is be at the Asha Trust office, where a dedicated room has been designated for the e-library and stocked with books as well as a few computers.
The book bank supplies books to certain selected schools in the Kaithi tehsil area. These are mostly government schools that Asha Kaithi works with, with the help of another independent NGO
Asha Trust works to catalyze socio-economic change in India through the education of underprivileged children.
Asha Trust is the India arm of Asha for Education (US) with similar vision & mission