Minutes of Asha Seattle meeting on 10/10/07

Venue : RTC LWSD No 414, Morton Johnson Room, Redmond, WA

Attendees: Deb, Hareesh, Ameya, Satyajit, Srijan, Ken, Mithun, Sajit, Chandra, Stacy, Shailesh, Kannan, Kavita, Bindu, Vijay

Update on Center for Learning – Presented by Hareesh

§  Anita from Chicago is associated with this project

§  For poor people

§  Parents are maids / temp workers

§  Shortage of money for teachers' salary

§  How come 26 students pay up 2.6L Rs?

§  Up to 10th class

§  1L interest not considered in budget

§  Vocational career after 10th std

§  What books she uses?

§  Stewards: Chandra and Hareesh

§  No site visit report. Request Anju for site visit

§  What is the right number of teachers?

§  Children health intervention - break up?

§  Growth of number of children in the school?

Chapter Updates – Presented by Srijan

§  Utsav: Sell Tea (Add Kannan)

§  Give Campaign Started

§  AllGoRhythms: Tickets

§  More people for Bollywood Balleria

Update on  Nitya Sewa Society – Presented by Kavita & Deb

§  Additional Funding request

§  Serves orphans and runaways

§  They go to private schools but they are segregated into different classroom

§  Can this org start their own school?

§  Can they do it without our support?

§  Should we test students at this young age?

§  Percentage of people in KG and 1st to be promoted?

Vote: Support as it is (Not approved)

Yes – 5, Abstain – 2, No – 6

Update on Besty Elizabeth Trust – Presented by Sujit

§  Day care for kids from 1-5

§  Was funded by Bethania, which was involved in money fraud

§  Do they have FCRA?

§  Site visit: May 2006

§  Talk to Bethania?

§  Why less number of teachers?

§  Why so many teachers?

§  How are they measuring the effectiveness?

§  What is Manager for?

§  Rise for teachers salary is not as much as managers. Why?

§  Why give medical and PF?

§  Finance accountant

 

 

 

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