Asha for Education

The Avehi Abacus Project aims at empowering children to develop a comprehensive view of the world, beginning with their immediate reality. To appreciate the possibilities and limitations of this Project, it is necessary to locate it in the context of current educational beliefs and practices.

AVEHI, Audio Visual Education Resource Center is a voluntary, non-profit
organisation which was born out of a belief that knowledge empowers,
that the media must be used for widening horizons for creating awareness
to promote secularism, equality, social justice and communal harmony.
The overriding concern of AVEHI is to act as a resource center for
development and dissemination of material that will contribute to the
cause of education in its widest sense. It aims at helping children and
adults to develop a comprehensive view of the world, the starting point
being their immediate reality. It aims at helping them to evolve
learning strategies to cope with the rapidly expanding world of
knowledge and to evolve a framework of values which will enable them to
live in harmony with others and with the environment.

These are the concerns that motivated AVEHI to take up the ABACUS
project in addition to its ongoing activities of dissemination of
educational materials