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Minutes of Asha Seattle meeting
on 03/07/07
Venue : RTC LWSD No 414, Morton Johnson
Room, Redmond, WA
Attendees:
Swati, Sudarshan, Megha, Rupa, Tushar, Palani, Gagan, Kunal, Harish, Deepthi,
Aparajita, Binay, Anu
Project - National
Association for Blind – Presented by Megha
- NAB was established '77.
- The proposal for hearing and speech impaired
caters to about 12 child and adults.
- Provide home and community based services (2
hrs twice a week per child).
- Currently funded by Sense International -
funding runs out in April 2007.
- Jayashree has visited their offices (Dec
2006) and worked with them.
- Megha will do the site visit in June.
Questions:
- Trained teacher(s) available to help with
the unique skills?
- Clarify if the project co-ordinator gets
honorarium from other sources.
- Transportation costs 600 x 4 x 12 need to be
clarified.
- Ask for last years accounts statements.
Vote for $6000, 1 year support: Yes - 10, No - 0, Abstain – 3
Project - Bhoomiheen
– Presented by Gagan
- Very poor communities in Aau
(70% below poverty line).
- Largest Asha project worldwide - first one
on WAH.
- $11,500 from general funds + $22,500
targetted funds for the last few years.
- Number of children increased 240 (1998) to
about 270 children today. There is almost 2200 hours of education in a
village with no education before.
- Open education curriculum.
- Few kids dropped out after 8th grade, many
went on for further studies
- 5 years back, it was hard to bring kids to
school. Today, that's not a problem.
- Net assets today worth $23 lakhs; reflected
in asset report.
- $5000 worth of investment in renewable
energy today.
- Followup question - can we get govt
subsidies for infrastructure investment? Govt gives subsidies if there's
no electricity in the area.
- Total funding ask for 2007 = $44000; $10,500
more than current commitment; divided between increased running
expenses, facility enhancement, fuel and salary raise.
Vote for Rs 19,350000
recurring (3 years):
Yes - 10, No - 2, Abstain - 3
How to present
project updates in the meetings -
Presented by Palani
Vote :
Proposal to have a 10-15 minutes project presentations in every meeting
for collaborative learning.
Yes - 13, No - 0,
Abstain - 1
Possible presentation outline:
(1) Very brief history of the group and proposal
(2) How do they reach out to the community? What has the impact been?
(3) What went right - what can we learn?
(4) What didn't go quite as planned - what can we learn?
(5) Updates for the past year and plans for the next year
(6) Collaborate and share ideas
(7) "Score" - the steward can come up with a score to see how
effective it has been. Some criteria for scoring:
(a) Effectiveness of the program
(b) Quality of people
(c) Quality of infrastructure
(d) Budget utilization and accounting
(overspent/underutilized)
(e) Value addition and learning
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