Meeting held on Sunday June 15, 2003 - minutes by Amrish

In attendance were Shankar, Anirban, Manoj, Sridhar,
Amrish, Vinay, Sumathi, Uday. 

Mainly two topics were discussed, Lalpur project and
the story "charts" created by Ms. Saraswati, whom
Shankar met during his recent India trip.

1. Asha-Princeton will be a steward for the Lalpur
project. We are partnering with Asha-MIT (contact:
Harish Chawla). Shankar will be the coordinator. The
grassroots volunteer at Lalpur (near Lucknow) is
Paromita Ukil, a journalist inspired by Sandeep. Her
Asha stipend is $1200/year. Asha-Princeton will
contribute $600 for the current year. No commitments
beyond that.

Amrish plans to visit the project in August.

2. The story packet is very impressive. The language is
Tamil. They do not yet plan to translate in other
languages even though they might have the resources.

Asha-Princeton can sponsor the sending of the packet/kit
to each of the Asha projects in Chennai at a cost of 
$12/school.

We need a volunteer to take charge of this initiative.