From: richa@csa3.lbl.gov (RICHA GOVIL)
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Subject: ******** Asha presents "Images of India" 1992 Cultural Program
Date: 11 Sep 92 23:11:10 GMT
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                        ASHA at UC BERKELEY
            An Action Group for Basic Education in India

                             presents



                          IMAGES OF INDIA

         AN EVENING OF CLASSICAL AND LIGHT CLASSICAL PERFORMANCES
                     FROM DIFFERENT REGIONS OF
                               INDIA

          INCLUDING AN AUDIO-VISUAL (SPECIAL FEATURE) ON INDIA


                                ON
             SATURDAY, 24TH OF OCTOBER 1992 AT 7.00 PM


                                AT 
                       INTERNATIONAL HOUSE
                     (Piedmont and Bancroft)
                     UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA
                             BERKELEY



                   ANOTHER FORTHCOMING ASHA EVENT: 
                    A CONCERT BY VIOLIN MAESTRO

                        DR. L. SUBRAMANIAM

                      ON 7TH OF NOVEMBER 1992
                        (WAIT FOR DETAILS)


For more information, please contact Richa (richa@csa3.lbl.gov) or 
Prashant (phedao@ced.berkeley.edu).


ASHA - AN ACTION GROUP FOR BASIC EDUCATION IN INDIA
1915 Napa Ave., Berkeley, CA 94707, U.S.A.
_____________________________________________________________________

July 1992

ABOUT THE GROUP

	The action group Asha was formed by some students and scholars at the 
University of California, Berkeley, during the summer of 1991 to promote 
basic education for poor and underprivileged children in India. 
Asha is working in association with Indians for Collective Action (ICA),
which is a non-profit organization in the San Francisco Bay Area, engaged in 
supporting development work in India for over two decades.  Asha is
also registered as a Trust at New Delhi.  Since our inception, people from 
different parts of U.S. have come forward to join in our endeavor.  We have 
chapters and representatives in various states in the U.S.  A sister 
organization with similar objectives for Bangladesh has also been formed.  


OBJECTIVES OF THE GROUP

To provide education to the underprivileged children in India.

To encourage the formation of various local groups (both in U.S. and India) to 
  reach out to larger sections of the population.

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

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

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


CURRENT PROJECTS

1. To provide non-formal education to 550 economically and socially 
   backward class working children in the Reddipalayam village of Chengalpattu 
   district, Tamil Nadu.  This education will include a rudimentary 
   teaching of reading, writing and math, and a vocational training in 
   embroidery and other trades.  These children work during the day time to 
   supplement their family's income and will attend the non-formal learning 
   centers during evenings.

2. To support five children from poor financial backgrounds through our 
   Support-A-Child program.  We cover the cost of each child's tuition, 
   uniform, other education related expenses, one meal a day, basic health 
   care and some recreational activities.  

3. To support four children through Support-A-Child program  in a school in 
   the Ballia District of U.P.  These children have been removed from the 
   work-force at Asha's request and have been admitted to this school.

4. To provide educational and medical support for 25 children in under-
   privileged  communities in Bodhgaya, Bihar.  Along with alternative 
   education based on Gandhian lines, the children  will be 
   provided with food, clothes and health care on a long-term basis.

5. To seek support for 9 families in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu, which 
   are headed by widows who want to become self-reliant by undertaking some 
   income generation projects.  


HOW YOU CAN HELP

	The simplest way of helping is by making a financial 
contribution to our General Fund.  We identify and support deserving groups 
and individuals in India who will use our funds judiciously.  You may also 
choose to contribute to any specific projects that we are currently supporting. 
Please indicate this when you mail your contribution.  You can also play a more 
active role by helping in the direct implementation of the objectives of the 
group either here or in India.  All members will be  informed about our 
activities through an annual newsletter and various updates from time to time.

______________________________________________________________________

Permanent  Address  in US:  "Asha", c/o Mrs. Kausalya Hart, 1915 Napa 
Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707, Phone: (510) 525-1793.

Address in India:  "Asha", c/o Smt. Uma Pandey, 5-B Railway Colony, 
Chelmsford Road, New Delhi - 110055, Phone:  353664.

CONTACT PERSONS FOR 1992-93:

Deepak, 343 Hearst-Mining Building, University of California, Berkeley, CA 
94720, home: (510) 845-4049, work: (510) 486-4884,
e-mail: saboo@garnet.berkeley.edu

Richa Govil, 1915 Napa Avenue, Berkeley, CA 94707, work: (510) 486-4973, 
e-mail: richa@csa3.lbl.gov


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