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Minutes of Asha
Seattle meeting on 02/15/07 Venue : RTC LWSD No 414, Morton Johnson
Room, Attendees: Ravi, Sairam, Swami, Aruna, Ankit Singh, Kannan, Sudarshan, Palani, Nitin, Shailesh, Vibhavaree, Srijan, Marina, Theressa, Ken, Ameya Project – Asha Delhi Project – Presented by Marina §
Introduction about the project §
Asha Delhi Project – We will have only the coordinator §
No more involvement §
Only East and §
How do they work? - Talk to parents and Monitor progress /
follow-ups §
Do children face resistance? Loss
of revenue that's why there is resistance §
Money for uniform? §
Which grades are targeted? §
Already identified the kids who are going to get benefited. §
What's the current level and what's the future plan? 400 kids? 25% of 400 kids? §
Salaried individuals are they the same ones doing the classes? §
What do they need? How well
is it working? Metrics to define to §
Have they filed RTI? §
Partial work is done to gather info d=from some schools §
Clarification on exactly how the tuition is covered and overall Laws
/ sublaws §
Job description of the supervisors? §
Timeline on the funding? §
This is currently Asha Delhi project so we
might not require the site visit as well? §
Is it ongoing? Initially it
is advocacy project. Later the efforts
will be less to get the kids to the schools. Just to hit 20% will be a
problem. It will be a long term project, so think before committing. 14. Questions
: §
What are total number of seats in all of
the private schools? §
Does it makes sense to build a school with
$30K than getting kids in the school? §
What is ROI? §
How many kids will get into the school with $30K? §
Remember: All of $30K is not going towards administrative expenses
but also to kids' uniforms. §
Pariwartan org has good reputation Vote : Should we support? YES: 14 NO: 0 Abstain: 4 Project - Presented
by Nitin §
School: 10 classrooms §
Wagheshwar Vidya mandir §
School is run by Jilha
Parishad §
Explained the site visit report. §
24% Male to female ratio is very low Questions §
FCRA rules? §
Will van increase the girls attending the
school ? §
Management given up going to villages and
get more girls in ? §
Get exact figure for male:female
ratio Got the answers to the
questions asked lat time in the meeting. §
Do we make them write a letter to legally
bind to use our money for the cause we have donated? Questions were asked to
know if we can make it legally bound to them? Answers and suggestions §
Ask them to sign something to pledge that
the funds will be using for non-profit use. §
Help improve Male: Female ratio Updates – Presented by SRIJAN WAH Asha wide fund raising 2.
Status: 3.
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Collecting projects from organization §
Theme: Child labor §
We are not putting in any projects §
Will help smaller chapters to get
projects done §
We keep low in WAH 3.
We decided not to submit the
proposal for WAH, anonymously 4.
Geetanjali:
17th March 2007 §
Palani:
will come up with concrete plan §
Need more volunteers §
Talk to Algo
Team 5.
Asha
Conference §
On: Memorial Day weekend. §
Venue: NY 6.
New buddies §
Kavita sent
mail about buddies §
Old people who will help new Project
Stewards 7.
Learning aid §
Theresa will be showing some aids §
She will contact us later Talked about NHFS – 3 Had a nice discussion about various figures presented Updates by Sudharshan Project Workshop §
on February 24, 2007 STP (Seattle to §
Biking training- Beginning of march-Contact
person: Sudarshan 10. Updates by Megha & Rohit §
Sign with §
Training starting little early 1.
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