Asha for Education

Project Brief: The Ankur project sends children from the urban slums of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad to the Ankur school located in Pune, where they receive formal education. The children come from families of varied backgrounds such as daily laborers and rag pickers.
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Tribal
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Silicon Valley

Status: ENDED
Project Steward: Anshu Gaur
Co-Steward: Guruswamy Kumaraswamy
Project Partner(s): Madhuri Deshpande
Project Address: Ankur
c/o Mrs. Madhuri Deshpande, Fergusson College Campus,
Gate No. 1, Bungalow No. 2, Shivaji Nagar
Pune, Maharashtra 411004
Tel: 91-20-2546-2626 (Office)
Stewarding Chapter: Silicon Valley

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<b>Meet Rahul from the Ankur Project</b>
<p>Rahul lives in Pune, in Maharashtra. He is 9 years old. His father is a tailor and mother a teacher. Their family income is about Rs 1500 per month.
<p>Rahul enjoys going to school and is currently studying in standard 3. His hobby is drawing.
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<b>Support a Child! Enrich a life!</b>
<b><font color=green>You can support a student from this project for $20 a month</font></b>.
<a href='http://www.ashanet.org/siliconvalley/sac/'>Click here to become a sponsor</a>
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The Ankur project sends children from the <font color=green><b>urban slums of Pune and Pimpri-Chinchwad</b></font> to the Ankur school located in Pune, where they receive formal education. This project is in collaboration with a social organization called <font color=green><b>Swadhar</b></font> in Pune. The children come from families of varied backgrounds such as daily laborers, rag pickers, sweepers, and unemployed families.

Asha supports the education of 35 children through the Support A Child program.
<p>Swadhar has a branch called <font color=green><b>Akshardeep</b></font> that runs non formal schools to help "out-ofschool" children (viz. dropouts) get back into the regular school system. <font color=green><b>Asha Zurich</b></font> is supporting 10 non formal educaiton schools in the Pimpri-Chinchwad area. The Ankur project, also known as <font color=green><b>Akshardeep-Ankur</b></font> is a proposal to individually sponsor at risk children from Akshardeep's schools, to integrate them into mainstream education and improve their chances of completing school. The kids are selected based on two criteria – their potential (how well they are doing in school and how motivated they are), and based on whether they might have difficulties coping with a Corporation school (children from very poor families, children who are from outside Maharashtra and cannot follow the Marathi medium of instruction in government schools). </p>