Aashritha - The Helping hand Community is an independent, non-religious, non-political organization registered as a non-profit organization (Society # 238 of 2008) in India under Act No. 35 of 2001 for Registration of Welfare Society. (For photo of the certificate, click here). Aashritha is formed by a group of dedicated members, working towards the improvement of child education in rural areas of India. We aim at cultivating moral values along with providing education to our children (the adopted ones), as we feel that any education without moral values is as good as no education. We also aim at providing moral support and care to the under-priviledged and the physically challenged children, who are neither encouraged nor nurtured, as they should be, in our society. We provide basic education to poor and needy kids. We take extreme care while selecting the children, who are supported by us. We adopt children with a view of educating them and providing moral support, irrespective of location, cast, religion, age, economic standards and physical abilities . We provide food and a place of residence to the adopted children during their academic year and make travel arrangements for them to visit their respective home-town during vacation periods. We arrange a loyal (employed) care-taker and a tutor (for a group of children), to facilitate the stay and education, this helps them to concentrate on their studies and make sure that they do not deviate from their studies. We plan to offer a secondary level education (i.e. upto 10th grade), and help these children become self-reliant. Where do we get the list of kids and how we decide as who is really in need for this program? Our dedicated team of members are responsible for this. They start looking for needy cases from their own cities and villages near by. They do thorough scrutinization and create a database of such children. This list is discussed with the group coordinators and other members and based on the funds' status, the final selection is made. The number of children we support each year depends on the available funds (projected over a year). The final list is made official and then begins the search for a proper school, living place and care-taker along with determining the current level of education that each child has. We have tie-ups with with some govermanet funded schools and private schools. Each selection (school, house, etc) is made as much close as possible to the child's hometown. The whole process needs time for quality, and the children are enrolled to school starting next academic year (from the year they are adopted). We tend to adopt more children each year, but depending on the availibility of funds, priority is given to the children already with us. |
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