There are people who need to work mainly to sustain themselves, I am happy to do the work that gives me maximum satisfaction. It took Dr Pandey and Asha about six years to get all the necessary permission and papers to register Asha in India. Dr Pandey was active mainly in Ballia, in Uttar Pradesh, the constituency of the former Prime Minister Mr Chandra Shekar. Dr Pandey was also actively involved in running of some of these schools. Dr Pandey and his team of volunteers are currently developing an alternative educational curriculum and textbooks for schools starting from kindergarden level.
Coursework includes basic hygiene and philosophy.
In the end, these children will have both the skills to work in industry and the ethics to be good citizens. On an experimental basis, the students upto first standard at the Reoti school are now being taught according to the syllabus developed by Asha. Asha aims to play a constructive role in the development of India. It believes that the means to achieving this objective is by make a difference to the lives of underprivileged children mainly through education. Asha realised that on one hand there were millions of children in India who did not have access to basic education and at the same time modern education was steadily ushering in more unemployment.