From venkatar@danablu.cs.wisc.edu Tue Nov 28 09:26:37 1995 Received: from danablu.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 28 Nov 95 09:26:35 -0600; AA21694 From: venkatar@danablu.cs.wisc.edu (Shivakumar Venkataraman) Message-Id: <9511281526.AA00474@danablu.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by danablu.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 28 Nov 95 09:26:35 -0600 Subject: Question reg. project selection (fwd) To: asha@danablu.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 09:26:34 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1752 Forwarded message: > From asha-chapters-request@cs.Stanford.EDU Sat Nov 25 22:01:14 1995 > Posted-Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 19:59:54 -0800 (PST) > From: Amol Kulkarni > Message-Id: <199511260400.AA179518443@rydberg.ee.washington.edu> > Subject: Question reg. project selection > To: asha-chapters@cs.stanford.edu > Date: Sat, 25 Nov 1995 20:00:43 PST > X-Mailer: Elm [revision: 109.14] > > Hi, > I am one of the members of the Projects Focus group at ASHA-Seattle. I > recently got a proposal from Pune, for a boarding school in a tribal area. > This school provides for the food of the children in addition to the > educational needs. > As such, the funds required by the school are much higher than the average > cost per student of the projects already sponsored by ASHA. (Almost > 2/3rd of the total cost for this project is to be spent on food). > > We had a discussion here about whether we should sponsor such projects or > whether the money is better utilized by sponsoring more projects which dont > provide food. > > I am sure many other chapters have discussed this earlier. We would like to > know the views of other chapters regarding this. The point to be noted is that > these boarding schools (or "ashramshala"'s) have a much better infrastructure > and quality of education. In addition to this, if there are vocational training > facilities added to such a school, the overall outlook for the children is > very good and there is a good chance of the children choosing to stay in their > rural area after completing their education instead of migrating to the urban > areas. > > I would like to know the views of members from other chapters regarding this. > > Thanks, > Amol Kulkarni. > --Shiv From venkatar@danablu.cs.wisc.edu Tue Nov 28 15:29:33 1995 Received: from danablu.cs.wisc.edu by sea.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 28 Nov 95 15:29:28 -0600; AA26353 From: venkatar@danablu.cs.wisc.edu (Shivakumar Venkataraman) Message-Id: <9511282129.AA01524@danablu.cs.wisc.edu> Received: by danablu.cs.wisc.edu; Tue, 28 Nov 95 15:29:27 -0600 Subject: ASHA Projects (fwd) To: asha@danablu.cs.wisc.edu Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 15:29:27 -0600 (CST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL24] Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1343 Forwarded message: > From anuradha@warren.med.harvard.edu Tue Nov 28 15:27:26 1995 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Date: Tue, 28 Nov 1995 17:05:17 -0500 > Message-Id: <0bb7c6f0@warren.med.harvard.edu> > From: anuradha@warren.med.harvard.edu > Subject: ASHA Projects > To: venkatar@lucy.cs.wisc.edu > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Description: cc:Mail note part > > Hi Shivakumar, > I work for ASHA-MIT & am coordinating the projects group. I wanted to find out > from you if you guys have any projects in TamilNadu or Uttarpradesh for which > you have all the relevant information & approved for funding. Also, if you have > any other projects in India for which you have all the info, but don't have > enough funds to support , please let me know. We have some people in this area > who are willing to fund projects in specific regions in India and some others > who are willing to fund any project in India. We have a lot of projects at hand, > but are in the process of gathering info and deciding on funding once we get all > the information. But in the mean time, to expedite matters, I am trying to > contact other ASHA chapters to see if they have any such projects that we can > present to potential donors in the Boston Area. Please let me know. > Thanks, > Anu. > --Shiv