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Coordinators. Chapter Coordinator- Vinod Viswanath Project Coordinator- Sanjeev Ranganathan Treasurer- Anita Komanduri. An example Asha project : Seva Chakkara Orphanage, Chennai, Tamil Nadu. A home for 100 children in all grades from pre-school to college.
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Coordinators • Chapter Coordinator- Vinod Viswanath • Project Coordinator- Sanjeev Ranganathan • Treasurer- Anita Komanduri
An example Asha project:Seva Chakkara Orphanage, Chennai, Tamil Nadu A home for 100 children in all grades from pre-school to college. • Runs a primary school for classes I-V • Children from class VI go to local schools • Provides vocational skills to the children on a case-by-case basis
How we worked with Seva Chakkara • First visit in Dec ‘99 by an Asha volunteer. • Feb ‘01 approved support for teacher’s salaries. Working with the project we realized that the basic requirements of food, shelter and health-care needed to be met before education. • May ‘02: Started innovative fund-raiser - Support-A-Child which raises $20,000/year towards basic living expenses, health-care and education.
Continued involvement with Seva Chakkara • Next, we worked with the orphanage on providing a permanent home. • $69,400 was raised through many innovative fundraisers including the marathon program at Austin.
Fundraising • Events are decided and organized by volunteer interest and initiatives. • Support-A-Child program • Events for the Austin Community – Plays, game fairs movie screenings etc. • Marathon Program is the biggest fundraiser and is the backbone – raised $80K in the last 2 years • The requirements keep growing and we need help!
Why Join Asha? • Great way to reach out to the underprivileged. • Growing organization at the student level. • Flexibility of volunteering in events of your choice. • Interact with people from diverse backgrounds.
How to get involved? • Join one of the committees: • Event Planning Committee • Publicity Committee • Projects Committee
Event Planning Committee • Brainstorm on ideas for fundraising or awareness events. • Organize events such as concerts, movies etc. • Find sponsors for these events.
Responsible for publicity materials e.g. flyers, ads for Asha events • Tabling, recruiting more volunteers • Writing press releases and contacting media before events. • Draft proposals to secure funds for publicity materials. • Maintain the website. Publicity Committee
Project Committee • Actively participate in learning from projects and selection of projects at the chapter. • Maintain the website for each project. • Keep track of donors and sponsored kids in support-a-child projects • Keep members of aware of ongoing-projects