Ashraya

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Ashraya

• Site visit
• Bangalore, Sept 03

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Introduction

• Started around early 90s
• Ms. Leela Deshpande
• Abandoned, mentally challenged, physically
  challenged children
• Registered trust
• RT Nagar, Bangalore
• about 8 km from city center

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Profile of children

• 60 children
• Over a period of ten years
• Varying degrees of physical and mental handicaps,
  some not handicapped
• Age
• mostly 1st to 7th grade
• 1 student taking SSLC this year

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What Ashraya provides

• Food, clothing, shelter
• Some stay at her home
• Older children at the school
• Education
• School close (about 3 miles) to home
• Also educates children from surrounding areas
• English medium, state board syllabus
• Vaguely defined notion of class
• Good teacher student ratio (125)

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What Ashraya provides

• Health care
• Voluntary work by doctors at nearby hospitals
• Personal contacts

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Expenses

• Approx Rs 1,00,000 per month
• Food
• Medicine, health care
• Rent for school, school supplies, teacher
  salaries
• Transportation
• Funding sources
• Personal contacts
• Donations of food, clothing
• ??
• No government funding

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Self sustenance

• Selling of
• Cards
• Lamps
• Medicinal plants
• No real plan

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Future problems

• In three years?
• Close to 10 children will complete 10 std.
• In five years?
• Close to 30 children

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Our part

• What they need
• Vocational training equipment
• Equipment for therapy
• Current status
• Proposal, quotes in the mail
• Asha Houston Ruhina Surendran

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Parikrma

• Site visit
• Bangalore, Sept 03

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Introduction

• Started 2003
• Ms. Shukla Bose
• Corporate management, experience
• Advises Govt. of Karnataka on education
• Under served children
• Office in Hebbaligere
• about 12 km from city center

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Profile of children

• From slums all over Bangalore
• Under served children
• Age
• 1st to 5th grade

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What Parikrma provides

• Education
• 2 schools
• Hebbaligere
• Koramangala
• English medium, central board syllabus
• Good Teacher student ratio (120)
• American style grading system

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What Parikrma provides

• Health care
• Mid day meals
• Tie up with private hospital (Mallya-Apollo, I
  think) for routine checkups
• Health records maintained for every student

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Expenses

• Approx Rs 1,50,000 per month per school
• Food (mid day meals)
• Health care
• Rent for school, school supplies, teacher
  salaries
• Funding sources
• Personal funds
• Single donation of Rs 38 lakhs

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Self sustenance

• No plans, No intention
• Raising money from the corporate world
• Azim Premji foundation
• Visiting Bay Area soon

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Future problems

• In six months?

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Our part

• Regular expenses

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Raising funds

• Q4 2003
• Source Personal contacts (December tax deadline)
• Target 300
• Q1 2004
• Source Los Angeles Marathon (March 7th 2004)
• Target 500
• (not as ambitious as P.Diddy!)

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Additional information

• http//www.isi.edu/pkamath/photos/blr-sept03/ashr
  aya/
• 30 photos site visit report (under
  construction)
• http//www.isi.edu/pkamath/photos/blr-sept03/pari
  krma/
• 10 photos site visit report (under
  construction)
• http//www.parikrmafoundation.org