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Minutes of Asha Seattle meeting on 11/28/07 Venue : RTC LWSD No 414, Morton Johnson Room, Redmond, WA Attendees: Binay, Swati, Subhasish, Ken, Srijan, Megha Uthnau Site visit report – Presented by Swati § Swati talked about her visit to Uthnau in West Bengal. § Uthnau is a group that help Santhali children cope with education through their own language, providing health-care & raising community awareness towards sustainable development of the region. Their focus includes fighting for the rights of adibashis & developing sustainable alternatives to mining. § Swati gave a brief history of the group and their work and how her involvement with the project had been starting 2001. There are three primary areas that Asha Seattle support - few early childhood education centers, Creche and a couple of tution centers. There were many questions on their long term goal of sustainability and different other problems faced by the tribal community at large. Overall, the site visit was satisfactory and it was recommended that Asha can continue to play a supportive role for Uthnau. § More details on the site visit report will up uploaded to Uthnau webpage: http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=318.
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