Minutes of Asha Seattle meeting on 07/07/2005.

 

Venue: Steven’s Court, UW

 

Attendees: Sunil Laxman, Raghav K, Vani, Vibhavaree, Swati, Tarun, Ravi Manghani

 

Discussion: Sunil, Vani, Raghav and Tarun presented their agenda items followed with some discussion. The description of the projects, resulting action items and voting outcomes are mentioned below:

 

Sunil Laxman:

 

Description:

Talked about a standard Asha fellowship proposal for Dr. Subbaramaiah. The fellowship shall help Dr. Subbaramaiah to continue with the MICDA project and MATHAMMA eradication project.

 

Action Items:

  • Approved pending finance
  • Sunil to send a note to Asha Seattle mailing list for approval.

 

Voting Outcome:

People who said yes: 7 – yes

 

Vani:

 

Description:

Asha Residential project is one of the four schools run by one of the aid recipients (name not recollected). He requires a funding of $ 4000 in order to continue the school.

 

Action Items:

  • Give them a buffer amount (or the regular monthly installment money).
  • Approval is pending on site visit.
  • Venky will probably do at a site visit during his visit to India.
  • Further, Vani needs to do some information mining with the people managing projects in India. The questions are as:

 

1.      How was the project funded so far?

2.      Check out the site visits that were done in the past.

3.      How many classes are there in the fourth school?

4.      What are the other resources for funding for the school (question about $12000 of the $16000).

5.      What was the selection criterion when the fourth school was chosen?

6.      A description of break-up of 50,000 INR as miscellaneous expense.

 

Voting Outcome:

N/A

Raghav:

Description:

The fellowship proposal is by Sumi Chandresh to set up a De-schooling experimental project.

 

Action Items:

Raghav to probe into the project further with the following possible questions:

  1. What is the age group for the students?
  2. Is Sumi pulling children out of the school?
  3. Where is she recruiting the school children from?
  4. What a typical day for the kids will be like?
  5. What are the typical fund requirements?
  6. Details for Nomination from Jayasree.

 

Voting Outcome:

N/A

 

Vani: To hold a talk for the volunteers from Ravi – AID India head.

 

Tarun:

 

Description:

Gave an update on the status for miles4Smiles (marathon event); essentially where they stand and where they are moving on the marathon effort.

 

Action Items:

  1. To contact IAWW for a booth sometime around August 15th (getting details from Vibhavaree).
  2. Vani to help Ashita with the booth setup for July 9th event.
  3. Tarun to email New volunteer mailing addresses for volunteer help (what is the email) address.
  4. Ravi to reserve a room in the HUB for the U-dub Brown bag.
  5. Everyone okay with forwarding pratidhwani-email to Asha Seattle in return to their favor of letting to set up the booth.

 

Voting Outcome:

N/A

 

Sunil:

 

Description:

An organization formed by the professionals working in and around Delhi region namely: Stopragging.org. The goal is to eliminate ragging from different campuses nationwide through various means and ways: law, advocacy groups, awareness programs, helplines etc. 

 

Action Items:

Sunil to further interact with the organization.

 

Voting outcome:

Seven yes votes for the further consideration of this project.

 

 

 

 

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