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. Of these about 85 are managed under project Sangamam in Thiruvallur. We need your continued support to continue and expand our work.

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.

Project

Project Sangamam

  • Supports 85 schools in rural areas of Thiruvallur District.
  • Nodal centre for developing our innovative Computer science curriculum and contents for our Asha Kanini platform.
  • Toilets have been renovated or rebuilt at 25 of the schools.
  • Libraries have been setup for the children at 30 schools.
  • Nutrition under project Arogyam in 3 areas serving over 200 children.

Click here to learn more about Project Sangamam.

Project Sangamam's

Special Initiatives

  • Arogyam – Nutrition supplementation to the children in poorest areas. Currently implemented in 3 areas. In addition to improving their health, this also improves their focus at school.
  • Karadi Path Program – Innovative way to teach English based on the KaradiPath's Magic English SLL program introduced at 10 schools.
  • Rural Technology Centres - Four rural technology centres being run successfully project Sangamam area with support from IITM Pravartak.
  • Amazon's Explore Program - Amazon's explore covers most of the Thiruvallur District from RK Pet to Gummidipoondi.

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.