Asha Honor Projects Pipeline

1. Asha Honor Projects Pipeline

2. I. Introduction to Asha II. Asha Honor Projects Pipeline III. Summary of Funding Needs IV. Backup slides - Road to UQE Outline

3. Suffering Ignorance (Not Knowing) Poverty (Not Having) Apathy (Not Acting on good thoughts) Solutions Education Economy Action Code of Honor Vision (never lose sight of the strategic direction) Emotional Intelligence (empathy – visceral over cerebral thinking) Logic (built on a solid facts base) Attention to Detail (deep dive) Courtesy (respect for the individual) Motivation

4. Why Educate? Constitutional Right – Free & Compulsory education for children age 6-14 yrs Popular Demand Human Capital Joy of Learning Individual well being with critical enquiry Social progress – education leads to action Political participation – healthier democracy Social Justice What is Education? “By education I mean the all round drawing out of body, mind and spirit” MK Gandhi “the highest function of education is to bring about an integrated individual who is capable of dealing with life as a whole” Jiddu Krishnamurti “a right which enables individuals and communities to act on reflection” Rabindranath Tagore Motivation

5. Motivation "Disabled and women in India are treated worse than animals" Jagdish Chander, Asha Syracuse "98% of those who are disabled are left without education or jobs in India" Prof Vileen Shah, Social Science Dept, Harold Washington College, Chicago Jagdish & Vileen are the first visually impaired volunteers of India

6. Action • We have a strong bias for action • Focus on Basic Education • Education is central to everything we do • Apolitical, Secular • We do not enter electoral politics • we support tolerance of diverse faiths • Volunteerism • We are driven by committed worldwide volunteers from all walks of life • Decentralized, Flat Structure • We favor team work through cooperation and consensus • We disfavor rigid hierarchies • Accountability • We hold ourselves accountable to the communities we impact, • volunteers who give time, donors who give funds • and to the partnering organizations we work with • Transparency • We conduct our work in a manner that is open to independent analysis • and constructive criticism from the public • Courtesy • By demonstrating the highest standards of behavior in all interactions, • we make volunteering in Asha a positive experience to look forward to • Zero Bribe PolicyWe advance Asha’s projects through honorable ways • without supply of bribes Core Values of Asha

7. Asha Project Cycle T0 Research to understand grass roots issues Develop a project proposal with site visit reports, vision, budget breakdown T1 Review of the proposal at an Asha chapter T2 Raise funds to meet the need Track progress of the project Q Fully Qualified project Support till self-reliance

8. Asha for Education Mission - To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children 1.6 M $ per year; 500 volunteers, over 400 projects Educating 100,000 children in 18 states of India

9. Mission – UQE 2047, Aug 15 10 active volunteers Engaged in and supporting numerous projects all over Chennai, Tamilnadu and India Pride - Infrastructure, teacher support for fishermen community TRY - Mainstreaming children of sex workers Scholarships - Tuition fees for children from isolated low income families Build - Non formal education to children of brick kiln laborers Trigger - Mainstreaming children with disabilities Udavum Karangal - Supporting needs of orphaned children Asha Yoga - Advancing physical education through Ashtanga Yoga training Sebama foundation - Overseeing construction of hostel for children with disabilities SETWIN - Improving quality of education for Dalit children SACSAS - Quality Education for tribal children Many proposals in the pipeline 2000 children impacted so far Reaching out to 300 villages by end of year 2005 Asha Honor Focus Group

10. Asha Honor Projects Pipeline Timeline Project Name T0 Research to understand grass roots issues Develop a project proposal Divakaruni Foundation with site visit reports, vision, budget breakdown Star Search T1 Review of the proposal at an Asha chapter T2 Raise funds to meet the need Build, Pride, Track progress of the project Q Fully Qualified project TRY, Scholarships, Trigger, Support till self-reliance Udavum Karangal Sebama Foundation SETWIN Confidence (BCT) SACSAS

11. Asha Honor Projects Pipeline

12. Project Build Partner: Pasumai Trust, Thiruvallur, Tamil Nadu Type: Non-Formal Education Centers Area Rural Focus: Creating awareness about child labor in brick-kiln industry Providing basic literacy and numeric skills, basic nutrition Motivating children to continue their formal education Campaigning to change policies of the government to accommodate needs of migrant laborer children Funds Needed $15,000 to support education of 200 children in brick kiln industry for period Sept 1, 2004 – Aug 30, 2005

13. Project Pride 2000 - Leaky class rooms 2002 - Asha volunteers fix leaky roof 2004 –Asha helps deliver permanent solution Several organizations cooperate

14. Scholarships Partner: TRY, Mudichur, Tamil Nadu Type: Formal Education Area: Metro Focus: Children from low income group, isolated families Typical family background as follows: Father is old and without job; Mother on temporary job; Low income Father expired; Mother helper in hospital; keen on studies Father daily wage coolie; Mother housewife; No steady income Father ran away; Mother cook at TRY home Disabled child; incomplete palate; needs speech therapy Father postman; family debt Father driver; Mother housewife,very low income canf afford to pay fees Tuition fees as well as monthly mentoring support provided Funds Needed [Funds successfully raised for June1, 2004 - Aug30, 2005] $3000 needed to support education of 29 children for period June1, 2005 – Aug 30, 2006 E. Sathya

15. TRY (To Reach You) Partner: TRY Type: Formal education Area Suburb Focus: Mainstreaming children of sex workers Constructing a permanent home for 15-50 children India-wide connected action Funds Needed Successfully Raised over $35,000 this year

16. Trigger Partner: Vidya Vriksha & several other organizations, universities Type: Formal education, vocational training, technology education Area Metro Focus: Mainstreaming children with disabilities Funds Needed $2000 for conducting needs assessment survey

17. Trigger - 5 Zonal Projects North (Uttar Pradesh) Helpline Providing information and counseling for people with disabilities Partner - ASTHA East (Manipur, Sikkim) Tribal Empowerment Educating tribal children, especially those with disabilities Partners – Asha India, JNMIH South (Tamil Nadu*, Andhra Pradesh) Lead to Light Producing and circulating multilingual braille magazines School & hostel for Mentally, Physically impaired Building a girls boarding Partners – Vidya Vriksha, Sebama Foundation West (Rajasthan, Maharashtra) Look ahead Providing equipment and software for job-oriented computer training Partners – Drishti Viklang Sangh, Kamla Mehta School for blind girls Centre (Madhya Pradesh) Sambhavna Facilitating a survey of survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide disaster Partner - Sambhavna * Also Ann Foundation Software consultant for visually impaired

18. Project LibraryEstablishing libraries through n-logue –Tulika – Asha partnershipVillage Valaicheripatti, Tamilnadu Typical nlogue Kiosk Chief Guest Inauguration ! Asha supported library 14 High Quality Tulika Tamil/English Booksets Delivered to 14 rural n-logue kiosks Start to Finish in 10 Months Results

19. Project Library covered 13 villages in Phase I Getting ready to cover 100 villages by end of 2005

20. Project Confidence Partner: Bhagavatula Charitable Trust (BCT), Vishakapatnam dt, AP Type: Non-Formal Education Centers, Vocational Training Area Rural Focus: Raising confidence level of rural children including cowherds Achieving Universal Elementary Education in Vishakapatnam Impacting 60-100 villages and plan to expand to 250 villages Funds Needed Funds sufficient for 2004 Needed for 2005: Rs.12,09,000 ($25,000) (recurring costs) Rs.25,00,000 ($50,000) (new proposal)

21. Project SACSAS Partner: SACSAS Academy, Moirang, Manipur Type: Formal Education Centers Area Rural Focus: Providing quality elementary education to tribal children Motivating them to continue formal education Funds Needed $4,000 by 2005

22. Project Location Focus Funding Needed 1. Build Tamil Nadu Children of brick kiln laborers $ 15,000 Rs 7.5 Lakhs 2. Admin Tamil Nadu Infrastructure at Asha Home $ 2,000 Rs 1 Lakh 3. Scholarships Tamil Nadu Tuition fees (low income families) $ 3,000 Rs 1.5 Lakh 4. Pride Tamil Nadu Teachers (Fishermen children) $ ??? Rs ??? 5. Ud Karangal Tamil Nadu Orphaned children $ 2,000 Rs 1 Lakh 6. TRY Tamil Nadu Children of sex workers Achieved target 7. Trigger India-wide Children with disabilities $ 2000 Rs 1 Lakh 8. Library India-wide Delivering libraries to villages $ 8000 Rs 4 Lakh 9. Irulas Tamil Nadu Freeing Bonded laborers Proposal in progress Total $ 32,000 Rs 16 Lakhs Asha Honor Financial Needs SummaryFor Sept 1, 2004 – Aug 30, 2005

23. Jeba Durai, Coordinator, Pride project steward MA, Public Administration, Madras University Sathya Priya, Treasury focus group MA, Social Work (Stella Maris University) Dhanalakshmi, Build/Trigger project steward Grass roots expert Geetha Durai, Treasurer Loyola College, University of California, LA Bhami, Signatory Founding member Chandravel Chamy, TRY founder, project steward MA, Social Work Sasi Satish, Scholarships project steward BSc, Computer Science, Pondicherry university Shanti Badrinarayanan, Trigger project adviser Educationist, Founder, Sai Srishty Anjana Badrinarayanan, Library project steward Ethiraj College Siddhamma, Irula project steward Grass roots expert, Asha Fellow Murthy, Pasumai Trust Founder Grass roots expert, Migrant laborers Ranjith, Fundraising focus group IIM, Lucknow D P Prakash, volunteer IIT Madras, UCLA, IBM, Vermont, USA Vileen Shah Professor, Washington College, Chicago, USA Advisors Prof Dilip Veeraraghavan Professor, Humanities Dept, IIT Madras Krishnaswamy Founder, Vidya Vriksha Asha Honor Focus GroupThe Team

24. Backup Slides

25. The Asha Learning Curve & Road to UQE

26. (1999-2004) * Each of the 400 Asha projects today have a unique combination of these attributes (except *)

27. After 13 years Asha has helped educate only 100,000 children 180 million kids are out of school We touched only 0.06% of the problem To avoid being a sideshow we must impact the mainstream We need a strategy for large scale change Begin with the End in Mind Search for Replicable, Scalable, Sustainable solutions

28. Report Card Literacy growth curve 54 years since UEE mandate written in Constitution Kerala, Himachal, Mizoram – the only succes stories Avg Indian adult has < 2 yrs of schooling 400 million Indians never read a single book in their life 69 million boys, 108 million girls aged 6-14 years out of school Pace of improvement slow, illiterates on the rise <2% of budget going into education Collective Team Grade for Indo People C minus (underperforming) Mission – Restore Honor to India Target – By 2022 Aug 15 – B+ grade Target – By 2047 Aug 15 – A+ grade

29. New Outlook "Begin with the End in Mind" First of Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey The end is UQE Every child in every one of 700,000 villages in India to have access to Quality Education View problem of India as a whole Emphasis on India-wide connected action “Trigger a self sustaining solution" Prof Ashok Jhunjhunwala, IIT Madras

30. Asha Learning Curve (1991-2004) Stage 10 - Collective Team Goal - UQE before 2047 Aug 15 Asha Honor Focus group Stage 9 - Move to village-centric action from project-centric focus Stage 8 - Use IT to as a key lever Stage 7 - Cooperate for Large scale impact Stage 6 - Evolve into a People’s movement Stage 5 - Create models for sustainable development Stage 4 - Connect education to livelihood Stage 3 - Greater awareness of Ground Realities Stage 2 - Projects-centric Action Stage 1 - Do something, anything Asha-nlogue Partnership Space Experienced Volunteers Typical Asha projects

31. Connect the Dots Mission - To catalyze socio-economic change in India through education of underprivileged children Asha Honor focus group working to connect the dots

32. Roadmap to UQE in India 1. Declare and communicate UQE in India as a top national priority. 2. Publish a roadmap to UQE with measurable milestones and a deadline (2047 is suggested based on data) 3. Build capacity of partnering organizations already engaged in community development. 4. Drive projects and innovate wherever necessary. 5. Define metrics of progress (identify tangible and intangible components to socio-economic progress) 6. Establish decentralised but coordinated zonal structures in India 7. Evolve and install Asha internal processes that support the long term objective. 8. Facilitate UQE in the smaller Indian states like Sikkim, Manipur early on (generate early results, earn credibility, infect with excitement, lead with momentum.) 9. Invite all partnering organizations to express support to the UQE mission and collaborate. 10. To leverage, impact children segment-wise, offering high quality, deep solutions (eg. Disabled, sex worker, street, laborers, rural, tribal, diseased) 11. Measure progress of Indo people to target on every August 15th (move with sense of urgency, take over the mind share from depressing gloom-doom news) 12. Communicate required run-rate effectively, as one team with one voice, until UQE mission is achieved through diverse media – magazines,online,TV, radio-encourage India-wide teamwork.