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Asha USC projectsCurrent• Basera-e-Tabessum – J & K

– Child home for girl children orphaned by violence in border areas of Kashmir

• Streets to School – Kolkatta– School for children of sex workers

Past• Ashraya – Bangalore

– School for mentally and physically challenged children• Parikrama – Bangalore

– School for street and slum children• Amandeep – J & K

– Conflict resolution workshop for Government High School teachers in Jammu and Kashmir

… disbursed $30,000 over 4 years

Asha USC activities• Major Fund raisers

– Musical concerts• Karyshma• Indian Ocean

• Talks and Documentary– Bunker Roy, Barefoot College, Rajasthan– Balaji Sampath, AID Jeevan Saathi, Tamil Nadu– Sandeep Pandey, Asha Founder, Uttar Pradesh– Sushobha Barve, CDR, Srinagar, J & K– Sidamma, Irula Trust, Tamil Nadu

• Personal initiatives– L. A. Marathon – Purushottam Kamath

• Ongoing fund raisers– Asha Ralphs program– Book your change

Event specific

• Fundraising– Musical Concerts– Cultural Shows– Booths

• Educational– Talks– Documentaries

• Help out with logistics on the day of the event

• Event publicity and outreach Low time commitment

Task specific

• Maintaining our website• Editing Newsletters• Designing publicity material

Time commitment in bursts

Projects

• Project Steward– Interface between the chapter and partner

group– Create and maintain webpage for the project– Gets the check from treasurer & sends it to

the group– Monthly updates from the partner group

Does not have to attend every meeting

Fund Raising and Outreach

• Sponsors– Identify and develop sponsors for events

• Talk to local Indian business who would want to reach a targeted Indian community

• Different levels of sponsorships

• Publicity – Network with other organizations – Collaborate for events

Does not have to attend every meeting

Focus groups

• Asha Sanctuary– issues faced by NGOs working with children of sex

workers– capacity building and networking of NGOs– advocacy and sensitizing of government bodies to the

issues• Asha Government

– improve quality of education in government schools– learn about government policies and schemes– child rights and children education advocacy

• Asha-wide has a range of focus group

Great opportunity to work with like minded individuals and strive towards finding solutions to issues.

Find out more …

http://www.ashanet.org

asha@usc.edu

asha-usc@yahoogroups.com

Thank you!