Minutes of Asha Seattle meeting on 08/17/2005. Venue: Redmond Regional Library Attendees: Ken, Vibhavaree, Tarun, UW professor?, Shayon, Sowganya, Vani, Srijan, Binay, Kavitha, Swati, Ravi, Sanjay, Anju, Parna Miles for smiles Marathon Needs to decide on projects to support this year. All the runners voted and finally decided to support the project Muskaan (pending Asha Seattle project approval) or SUPPORT. Meeting attendees voted during this as well: o Yes- 13 o No- 0 o Abstain-0 CMS School New proposal to add classroom, toilets and roof totaling 5000$ to a school located in a remote island in the Sundarbans. The entire CMS project has close to 1000 children enrolled. CMS started inception in 1994 and to-date has over 35 childhood centers and a boys home. Attendees voted: Yes- 12 No-0 Abstain- 0 Uthnau Several girls were dropping out of school to take care of their younger siblings. Discussions were held with the local villagers and it was decided that a crèche would allow older girls to come to school with their younger siblings. Questions raised by attendees What are the selection criteria for the current selection of the students? How will crèche handle other students of other schools who may want to come to this school? How does cost per student compare with other similar effort? What is the plan with respect to getting the 20 girls back to formal education? Why the meal, toys and teaching material cost looks high? Clear goals and expectation of the role crèche is going to play to the life of these girls and kids. Will it play pre-school role for the kids? Can we leverage existing infrastructure of Uthnau or government schools in that area rather than incurring the infrastructural cost? Should we have Saturday and Sunday off (or any other two days)? Why 30 days a month? Are all the teachers going to be coming every day for full day or they will have some shifts? Muskaan Primary work focus has been on children's education; building academic and emotional capabilities in the children to be part of a regular school system; mobilizing parents to value education as a definite input in their children's lives and help children to adjust to formal schools. Huge proposal and working currently in six highly vulnerable slum areas of the city of Bhopal. Due to the magnanimity of the project we will need to breakdown the project and look at specific aspects. Rohit & Swati & Sowjanya are helping with coordinating this project. Questions raised by attendees Other sources of funding? Have they contact other Asha chapters? Or are other Asha chapters trying to do anything? Why do they need separate cost for collective or cluster meetings? (page 1)? how many adults come for adult literacy program? How many people are involved with this project? Work an hour project? This is WAH project but it covers only 6K which is their one time expense Building cost? Rent? There is non-recurring cost Age group of all children? Typically how long do drop out children take to start back school.. Scale of expansion? if school children count has not changed then how come the budget increased so much? Accountability from parent's ends? There is community involved not just monetarily Where is the training center? Would this be recurring? Cut down & identify the region we want to look at.

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