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Asha for Education: An Action Group for Basic Education in India
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Dec 6, 2007 6:25pm
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•http://www.ashanet.org/
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Asha For Education works to promote education among the rural poor in India. It is one of the most effective charities involved in education; they facilitate a massive 97.9% of donations to program work alone. This charity is also secular, so none of this funding goes into missionary activities, such as western religious education.
Their mission:
Founded in 1991, Asha for Education is a secular organization dedicated to change in India by focusing on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change. Today, there are over 66 Asha chapters worldwide: 45 in the US, 14 in India, and seven in Europe, Singapore and Australia. The organization has more than 1,000 active volunteers and several thousand supporters around the world. To date, Asha has supported more than 385 different projects spanning 24 states in India. In terms of project funding, almost $4 million has been disbursed to these projects since Asha's inception. By pioneering bold new initiatives in the field of education, Asha is making a difference in the lives of underprivileged children of India.
The objectives of this group are:
1. To provide education to underprivileged children in India.
2. To encourage the formation of various local groups across the world to reach out to larger sections of the population.
3. To support and cooperate with persons and groups already engaged in similar activities.
4. To raise the required human and other resources to achieve the group objectives.
5. To provide opportunities to individuals living outside India who wish to participate in Asha activities in India.
6. To address, whenever possible, other issues affecting human life such as health care, environment, socio-economic aspects and women's issues.
Also, see their exact statistics on Charity Navigator
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