Asha for Education

Project Brief: There are two main recurring projects currently between Asha for Education and Mukti - (a) Mukti Coaching Center/ Support school for school students and (b) Mukti Institute of Technology/Employment exchange for college student /passouts.
Project Type: Resource Centers (description)
Primary Focus: to go to formal school (description)

Secondary Focus: remedial education

Area: Rural
Supporting Chapter Contact:
Bangalore

Status: CURRENT
Project Steward: Padmanava Sen
Co-Steward: Hitten Zaveri
Project Partner(s): Sankar Halder
Project Address: Mukti
Purbasridharpur, Raidighi
24 Pargs(s)
South 24 Parganas, West Bengal 743383
Tel: 011 91 33 24625544
Stewarding Chapter: Bangalore

Mukti Institute of Technology is set up not only to give professional computer training (desktop publishing, tally) and spoken English classes but also to run a placement cell for remote villages in Sundarbans they work in. After first 2 years of operation as training center, the employment exchange has been set up formed and collaboration with specific companies in Kolkata are formed. Youths are also trained as local entrepreneurs to fill the gaps of local economy to create more sustainable economy.

There are two main recurring projects currently between Asha for Education and Mukti - (a) Mukti Coaching Center/ Support school for school students and (b) Mukti Institute of Technology/Employment exchange for college student /passouts. The page with coaching center project details are linked at <a>https://ashanet.org/project/?pid=788</a>

Apart from these two projects, Asha for Education has supported many other projects and disaster relief efforts (cyclones and covid relief). Sundarban is a cyclone prone area and Mukti does a lot of relief and rehabilitation work during those times covering more than a lakh people. Also student scholarship projects and solar lantern projects are supported.

Among other projects supported over time, Bookbank project was supported for 13 years. Since 2020, the support was discontinued due to two reasons - financial constraints and continuous changes of curricular books by Govt.