ASHA PROJECTS

ABHAS - Train and Educate Adolescents with Community Help (TEACH)

Project Description
A girls interest center will be setup in Kacchi colony. Here, adolescent girls as well as
their mothers will be encouraged to come and discuss all the issues pertaining to them.
Specifically, girls in the age group of 14-18 years will be provided with basic literacy if
they have never gone to school. Girls who have studied but are unable to find
employment will be provided computer training and helped to get jobs in the
surrounding industries. Vocational training in tailoring, embroidery and applique work
will also be provided. We are supporting this project to help setup the girls interest
centre and provide vocational training.

Project Type: Non-Formal Educational Centers (description)
Primary Focus: girls (description)
Secondary Focus: children from slums
Other Focus: dropouts
Area: Urban

Additional Information
Address of NGO running the project (ABHAS):
A-201,Yamuna Apartments,
Alaknanda,New Delhi-110019
Phone : 91-11-26001930 / 9312636975

Popular Education and Action Centre - Navjagriti
, New Delhi District
DELHI

Project Description
1.The name of project run by the organization and location:

Child care center.
Nizamuddin railway station- New delhi.

2.Location of the project:

This project will be located near the railway tracks at Nizamuddin railway station. Many
basties of poor street children exists in this area.

3.Type of education provided:

Providing formal education through informal technique so that they are better equipped
to pursue the schooling.

4. Teaching technique:

The technique is informal.

5. Literacy rate of basic education:

Literacy rate among these children are barely 1%

6. Background of children:

These children come from different backgrounds but one thing is common among them
that they have run away from their home because of different kind of problems created
by parents or someone else.

7.Other activities:

Providing these children cloths after collecting from various sources. Weekly health
check-ups and occasional refreshment.

8. No. of children:

presently we working among 20 - 25 children. And our target is to increase the number
to 50.

9. No. of members dedicated to this project:
Five

Non education-related community development activities:

To establish shelter home near the community for keeping the brighter children here,
further educate them and workout on their rehabilitation process.


Purpose / Goals
1. To be channel of expression of the aspirations of people women, dalits, tribals
and other marginalized groups and Children.
2. to create an awareness of issues of social importance through regional and local art
forms.
3. To be a support communications group for the promotion of a just society.

Organization Description
Providing basic education to unsheltered and poor children so that they can understand
the meaning of their lives better and could develop their skills for making their lives
useful for themselves and the society. Towards this goal we conduct theatre workshop
for children and make them aware of their environment and making their lives useful for
themselves and the society, also providing vocational training.

The aim of this program is to identify such children from the streets of Delhi. Bring them
to the shelter home, counsel these children and also contact their family members and
counsel their guardian and thus start the process of rehabilitation by taking these steps.
This process of rehabilitation would lay emphasis on encouraging the children to go
back to their families, as it is of utmost significance that the children to grow up with
their families. The children will only be encourage to go back with their families only
after spending a considerable amount of time at the shelter home which could range
from a month to three months or more depending on how they are coping with the
problems which inclined them to run away from their family.

Among these children if anyone of them do not have their parents or any guardians to
take responsibility of them, its is envisaged that they will continue to stay in this shelter
home and provided with basic education and later admitted at MCD schools to further
their education. Along with their education, vocational training will also be provided
according to the learning capacity and choice of the children.



daliakar@gmail.com
Project Type: Community Awareness Programs (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Secondary Focus: children of dalits/tribals
Area: Urban


SAKSHAR
, South West District
DELHI

Project Description
VVF strives to work with communities, individuals and organisations; developing,
evaluating and implementing sustainable programs that empower them with Awareness
and Information and assist them to harness the benefits of Science and Technology to
use them to improve their quality of life and in doing so maintaining a commitment to
excellent services, innovation, transparency and integrity.
Purpose / Goals
* Establish a norm for schools for preparatory/ bridge courses for dropouts, children
from slum pockets, migrant families etc
* Skill Training and Functional Literacy for adolescent children from the given section
* Adult Literacy for men and women from the given section
* Education on issues of Self Advocacy, Social Security, Personal Savings
* Health education and primary health care for slum inmates
* Self-help groups for trained adolescents, adults.

Organization Description
Vigyan Vijay Foundation an approved institution under Societies Registration act of
1860 No. S40224 dated 03 Sept 2001
http://www.vigyanvijay.org - info@vigyanvijay.org
Project Type: Alternative Education (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Secondary Focus: health and cleanliness
Other Focus: vocational training
Area: Urban


Sri Ram Goburdhun Charitable Trust - Project WHY
, New Delhi District
DELHI

Project Description
Project WHY set out to create a model whereby quality education support in
underprivileged areas could be spearheaded by the community even if most members
are illiterate. The idea was to empower the community to pool its resources and run a
sound support program for its children.Estimated costs including sustainable expanded
services are USD 50000 annually. Project WHY seeks funds to sustain its activities as
well as expand services.
Purpose / Goals
Project WHY was conceived to answer a series of questions: Why do children from
underprivileged backgrounds perform poorly? What could be done to enhance their
performance? What skills should be taught to them to better their employment options?
How could this be achieved in a replicable community driven model?
Goals
- provide after school educational support to children from disadvantaged sections of
society.
- provide pre-school support (care for entire day) for children under age 5 from these
communities.
- provide exposure to various vocational skills to secondary school children and provide
training opportunities in areas of interest for secondary school children.
- point to overall healthcare support options and provide primary health & hygeine
awareness to these children to prevent ailments.

Organization Description
Project WHY started with 40 children and spoken English classes in 1998. Today, it
reaches out to over 600 children and runs an early education program, primary and
secondary after school support, a day care and life skills program for 20 children with
disabilities as well as a computer center in 8 different locations. The kids from Project
WHY have 100% pass rate through school and many kids have gone into colleges. Kids
guided in other vocational skills by Project WHY coordinators now earn sufficient to
move their families out of slums. The organization also has contained drop out rates
completely to 0% dropout from Project WHY kids

Project WHY was started by Anouradha Bakshi, who is the daughter of an Indian
Ambassador and has spent her childhood outside India - she has returned to India to
serve the people, infused years of her time along with significant portion of her
inheritance into sustaining the project. Her daughter, Shamika Bakshi, has dedicated
herself to serving at Project Why full time. Project WHY now employs 30+ people from
the community as teachers and employs transportation services from people in the
community, spending almost all the funds in the community.

Project WHY has expansion plans that include adding more classrooms, providing
expanded healthcare as well as providing vocational training. Project WHY also plans to
provide exposure and training for life skills to special needs kids (physically and
mentally challenged) to enable them to sustain themselves.

Project WHY is a community upliftment project undertaken by Sri Ram Goburdhun
Charitable Trust, an 80(g) exempt organization, registered in India. The charitable trust
also has FCRA clearance to accept foreign currency donations. Project WHY is
supported in part by Enfances Indiennes, a charity registered in France. Project WHY is
also recognized by UNESCO.
http://www.projectwhy.org - Anouradha@ProjectWhy.org
Project Type: Tuition Centers (description)
Primary Focus: children from slums (description)
Secondary Focus: children with disabilities
Other Focus: to go to formal school
Area: Urban
Number of Children: 600
Boy/Girl Ratio: 1 : 1
Student/Teacher Ratio: 20 : 1