Asha for Education

Project Brief: Maharastra Aikyawardhak Vidhya Mandir (MAVM) is a school catering to the children from the slum areas in Ghatkopar, Chembur and Tilak-nagar in Mumbai, India. Asha Purdue is financially supporting the primary classes (kinder-garden to fifth grade).
Project Type: Formal Schools (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)

Secondary Focus: other

Area: Urban
Supporting Chapter Contact: Purdue

Status: completed - requirements ended
Project Steward: Sunanda Koduvayur Parthasarathy
Project Partner(s): Shelar NA
Other Contacts:
Project Address: , 4/1, Tilak Nagar, Chembur,,,
Maharashtra  400089
Tel: 91-22-56268766
Stewarding Chapter: Purdue

Asha Purdue came to know about Aikyawardhak through an NGO called Gayatri Pariwar. Since Asha has always stood up by the motto of Education for Empowerment, we decided to take up the cause of MAVM as our own. Our ultimate goal is to help Aikyawardhak become self-sufficient but that will take time. In the meanwhile, we have to ensure that the students who are in this school at this time get a fair chance at life. After consulting with the school management and members of local NGOs, we chalked out the essential and urgent needs that we can accommodate in our limited resources. So far Asha Purdue has sponsored School Bags, Lunch boxes, Stationary (pencils, erasers, rulers, pencil-cases) and nutritional food for the children at a cost of approximately Rs 68000/- ($1700). For the coming year, we plan to get each child a new set of uniform at the cost of Rs 250/- per uniform (total cost $2600.00). Also, we wish to actively participate in the student nutrition program so that we can compensate for the nutritional deficits. For this purpose we have reserved an additional amount of $1500.

Apr 2007 Funding Details
Oct 2006 Funding Request
Oct 2006 Site Visit (Oct 2006)