Provide computers for high-risk children in India
IT Skills for Girls
Summary
We teach children of women trafficked for sex computer skills through our institutes and find them jobs through partner organizations to prevent them from also being trafficked and contracting AIDS.
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Project Needs and Beneficiaries
The sex workers are desperate for educational opportunities and a chance for better life for their children. They do not want their children to know about the flesh trade and also wish to minimize the risk of their contracting HIV/AIDS. Established computer institutes will not admit these children because of their birth status and certificate. The pilot project will be in Chennai, India and will expand to Hyderabad, Bangalore, Mumbai, Kolkata and New Delhi.
Activities
ASSET will operate computer institutes with Internet access with equipment and software donated by corporate donors. Computer-Based Literacy programs will be offered in regional languages.
Funding Information
Total Funding Received to Date: $179,092
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $107,907
Total Funding Goal: $287,000
Additional Documentation
This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).
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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
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Project Sponsor
Organization
ASSET India Foundation
6201 N. Camino Esquina
Tucson,
AZ
85718
United States
520-299-1210
http://www.assetindiafoundation.org/draft
Where this Project is Located
Country
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India
and can also be found under 
Children.
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 November 6, 2009.
Date Added to GlobalGiving
This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on September 5, 2006
Latest Update from the Field
ASSET Partnership with MILLEE-Carnegie Mellon University
By Ray Umashankar - Executive Director, September 01, 2009 10:54 AM
MILLEE stands for : Mobile and Immersion Learning for Literacy in Emerging Economies.
It is centered on Cellphone applications that enable children in the developing world to acquire language literacy game-like environments. MILLEE aims to make localized language learning resources more accessible to underprivileged children, at times and places that are more convenient than schools. The design methodology is based on best practices in commercial language learning packages and the traditional village games that children in the developing world play.
MILLEE has received major technology and
financial support from Nokia and the project is being implemented in schools run by the Byrraju Foundation in Andhra Pradesh.
MILLEE will be implemented on a pilot basis at ASSET India Foundation's newest location in Hyderabad "Arunodhaya" which serves more than 100 children of sex workers and HIV infected parents.
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