APSA - Association for Promoting Social Action

Project Brief: APSA is a grassroots Community development organisation with a focus on the development of the community of the urban slums, Street children, Child labourers and Children in distress (child victims of prostitution, Abandoned children, Runaway childre
Project Type: Tuition Centers (description)
Primary Focus: children who are working (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Arizona
Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Ullas Nambiar
Project Partner(s):
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , Namma Mane,34 Annasandrapalya,,Vimanapura,
Karnataka  560017
Tel: 80-5232749
Stewarding Chapter: Arizona
Dec 2002Work an HourUSD 9600
Dec 2001Work an HourUSD 9600

Total = $19200

Asha is supporting resource and education centres that play a vital role in preventing potential child labourers (school-going children from slum communities who are unable to perform well due to lack of good coaching in schools) from dropping out of schools and becoming child labourers.
Short-term goal is to provide the children with proper education environment and the long-term objective is to upgrade the school to provide higher secondary school education for the children. Among the resources that are required to establish a proper education environment, library is identified to be of prime importance. The children are struggling to access knowledge sources like good books, newspapers, brainteasers, etc. Because of the limitations in transportation, they are not able to access the public library resources also. This project ANANDAM (means eternal happiness) of ASHA is primarily aimed at solving this problem of the children in this organization.
There are also other training programs planned for paramedical health workers to train them in a systematic way. Initially 10 students minimum with higher secondary qualification will be trained on subjects in paramedical science, enumeration of health problems, survey, distribution of medicines, home visits, health education. For this an institute building has to be constructed.
APSA is a grassroots Community development organisation with a focus on the development of the community of the urban slums, Street children, Child labourers and Children in distress (child victims of prostitution, Abandoned children, Runaway children etc.).