Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

It will initially serve 20 children growing to 40. With the Mobile Computer Classroom, we will serve 200 children. It will create excitement among children living in the slums and provide skills for gainful employment.

Project Message

The only meaningful purpose for human existence is to help those who are in need. There is no greater joy than to devote resources and skills towards uplifting children of sex workers in India.
- Nita Umashankar, Founder/Director, ASSET India Foundation

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Ray Umashankar,
Director
6201 N. Camino Esquina
Tucson, AZ 85718
United States
5206218103
Email:

Project Sponsor

GlobalGiving

Organization

Learn more about ASSET India Foundation and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Education.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on July 29, 2008.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 05, 2006.

Latest Update from the Field

July 2008 Progress report

By Ray Umashankar - Executive Director, July 29, 2008 11:30 PM

1. Based on the recommendation of ASSET-Chennai advisory board, ASSET will be advertising for a full time administrator to manage the India operations. Ideally the administrator will be a senior level retired executive with a serious interest in social issues.

2. At ASSET-Chennai more than 20 students who completed the training opted to pursue higher education rather than accept a job immediately.

3. There is strong evidence to show that the ASSET training has helped all the students in their confidence, overall academic performance and desire to work hard towrds a better future.

4. The demand to join ASSET classes is much more than the capacity we have. It is clear that both the students as well as their parents are seeing the potential benefits.

5. STRiVE (www.striveindia.org) which has successfully trained and placed students in several verticals has agreed to partner with ASSET and provide the necessary training for the retail management vertical.

6. ASSET is working a recruitment plan
and also a student fee payback plan.

7. ASSET obtained used computers from IBM-Bangalore for AWWA( Affus Woman Welfare Association) in Hubli, Karnataka. In addition ASSET is helping AWWA with the computer literacy curriculum.

8. ASSET introduced its NGO partners in Bangalore to the NASSCOM Foundation
to facilitate hardware and software donations.

9. ASSET is assisting www.savethechildrenindia.net with hardware and software donations as well as curriculum. Save the Children works with girls rescued from trafficking in Mumbai.

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