Asha Chennai

NEEDS YOUR HELP!

Asha Chennai has been supporting about 140 government schools in rural backward areas of Tamilnadu and 8 schools in UP. We need your continued support to continue and expand our work. Support Asha Chennai.

Note that Asha Chennai works on very low overheads and these overheads are entirely covered by Asha volunteers ourselves. Your entire donation minus the payment gateway charges will be used for our project expenses.

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Our Support to

Government Schools

  • Provide teachers for schools with inadequate number of teachers.
  • Provide Computer teachers to all schools to teach digital literacy and programming.
  • Provide educational and sports materials to make for a rich educational environment.
  • Maintain their computers and assist in ensuring their civic infrastructure is good (to the extent we can).
  • Make for joyful learning by supporting school annual days.
  • Conduct assessments and analyse results to understand learning gaps etc.

Click here to learn more about our govt school support.

Projects

Our Other Projects

Manigal

Works for education and uplift of Narikoravas, an urban gypsy community, settled in two colonies in Chennai. We work with the schools they attend as well and work directly with the children in their colonies.

Scholarships

We cover the costs related to education of about 100 children going to schools and colleges and also monitor and report on their progress to donors.

Sugadharam

Build and repair toilets at schools lacking these basic facilities. These are typically schools we are working with and thus can ensure that they are maintained and used properly. Build 10 toilets and repaired more than 25 in the last 4 years.

Arogyam

Some of the areas we work with are particularly poor and backward. Just working on improving the education at the school is not sufficient. We are providing additional nutrition to the children either at the school or in their hamlet. In addition to improving their health, this also improves their focus at school.

Libraries

Asha runs 10 libraries in the rural areas we serve. These encourage young children to develop the habit of reading as well as function as an activity centre to expose children to different craft and science activities.

ASHA CHENNAI's

TECHNOLOGY AND EDUCATION

  • Asha Kanini – a platform for providing easy access to the best in class contents from private parties, the government and Asha itself. Asha Kanini is installed in over 500 schools and the teachers have been provided training on using it.
  • CS Curriculum – An innovative way to teach digital literacy and programming to children in classes 1 to 8 even at poor rural schools with inadequate infrastructure. Measures against the curriculums followed in developed countries.
  • Rural Technology Centres – For children in higher classes, in addition to teaching them basic digital literacy and programming at their schools we also provide higher level courses in Web development, Animation, Hardware programming, Robotics etc. at our RTCs.
  • Amazon's Explore Program – Asha is implementing Amazon Future Engineer's Explore program to expose children in a large number of government school computer science to spark the curiosity in them to learn and understand technology better.
  • Assessment Platform – Use the assessment and sociological data we have collected at our school to understand the gaps in learning and their causes. Provide a scalable platform for the conduct of the assessments and analysis of the results.

Click here to learn more about Asha Chennai’s Technology and Education efforts.