Asha for Education

Asha for Education (www.ashanet.org) is a non-profit organization with the mission to catalyze socioeconomic change in India through the education of underprivileged children. We collaborate with several non-governmental and governmental organizations in India to empower individuals and provide children with access to education, health care, equal opportunity, social justice etc. Asha for Education's interventions fall within the broad categories of community based interventions, disabilities, formal schools, non-formal education, supplemental education, fellowships, orphanages, residential schools, resource centers, and curriculum development to name a few.

The objectives of the organization are:

1. To provide education to underprivileged children in India.

2. To encourage the formation of various local groups across the world to reach out to larger sections of the population.

3. To support and cooperate with persons and groups already engaged in similar activities.

4. To raise the required human and other resources to achieve the group objectives.

5. To provide opportunities to individuals living outside India who wish to participate in Asha activities in India.

6. To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues

In the summer of 1991, Asha was born at the University of California in Berkeley when three like minded students- V.J.P.Srivatsavoy, D. Gupta, and Sandeep Pandey got together to think of ways in which they could play a role in the development of India. Since its inception in 1991, Asha for Education has come a long way with 68 chapters spread across US, Canada, Europe, Australia, and Asia. Till date, Asha has supported more than 385 different projects spanning 24 states in India. In terms of project funding, almost $4,000,000 has been disbursed to these projects since Asha's inception.

What makes Asha unique is that we are 100% volunteer-driven organization with zero-overhead costs.

The featured campaign here, Work an Hour (www.workanhour.org) is to support the education of 3000 underprivileged children in 18 different schools in rural India. Donors are requested to symbolically donate an hour's worth or more of their salary towards the cause.

Join us in our effort to Empower Rural India - One Child at a Time…