Asha for Education

Project Brief:
Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: girls (description)

Secondary Focus: health and cleanliness

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
UIUC

Status: CLOSED - ENDED
Project Steward: Anshu Gaur
Project Partner(s): Vallabh Pandey
Project Address: SMVS - Swati Mahila Vikas Samiti
Karvi, Banda, Uttar Pradesh
Stewarding Chapter: UIUC

Goal and Current Status- SMVS is dedicated to educating and increasing literacy of women from the Chitrakoot and Bandh districts of Uttar Pradhesh. It seeks to train them in issues of health, career, gender discrimination, etc, to assist them in developing talents and taking on active roles in soceity, and to enhance their dismally backward way of life. It was established by local women in 1999, and
the training center for adolescent girls began functioning around May 2002 under the supervision Mrs. Avadhesh Gupta.