To provide a holistic education, an interesting and caring learning environment, and help under-served children of tribal people acquire the skills and confidence to succeed in real life.

Aseema was established in 1995. Its mandate is to provide quality education to street and underprivileged children and to protect the rights of women and children.

Its core belief is that primary education is the right of every child. While the Government of Maharashtra has committed to make education free and compulsory for all, this commitment has been left grossly unfulfilled. Further, even among those who do enroll at school, most do not complete their formal education. Aseema established The Centre for Street Children in Mumbai in 1997 to address the above issues.

Aseema's Centre for Street Children started with only 18 children. Ever year the number of children has increased and today we reach out to over 600 children who study in our Pre-Primary Centre, at the Pali-Chimbai Municipal School (PCMS)we have adopted, and at our Support and Activity Centres. Now we are expanding into rural India.

Assema's goals are:
-to provide quality education to underprivileged children
-to prepare underprivileged children for entry into the formal system
-to provide on-going support to those enrolled in the formal system so that they do not drop out of school
-to work towards parental participation in children's education
-to improve the health status of the children who come to the Centre and provide nutrition
-to provide a system of non-formal education to those children who cannot avail of the formal system.
-to work towards self-sustainability from the sale of the products made from the art done by our children.