Asha for Education

Asha for Education ("Asha") is a registered 501(c)3 non-profit organization based in the United States."Asha" means "hope" in Sanskrit.

Asha does not have any employees and is a 100% volunteer-run.

History and Mission

Asha was founded in 1991 by V.J.P.Srivatsavoy, Deepak Gupta, and Sandeep Pandey in University of California, Berkeley. The mission of Asha is "To catalyze socio-economic change in India through the education of underpriviledged children."

As of 2016, there are over 50 Asha chapters across the U.S., Europe and India.

Programs

Asha works with over 200 projects across India. The projects deal with educational issues from pre-primary schooling to professional education in locations from urban slums to isolated rural areas. In 2014, Asha disbursed $2.85 million.^[1]

Awards and Recognition

Asha for Education maintains a Perfect 100^[2] score and 4-star rating^[3] on Charity Navigator, America’s largest and most-utilized independent evaluator of charities. Asha topped Charity Navigator's lists of 10 Slam Dunk Charities and 10 Charities Worth Watching in 2005 and 2007 respectively. In 2016, Asha is #1 on Charity Navigator's "100 Highly Rated Charities Relying on Private Contributions" list.^[4]

Asha for Education was awarded the ‘2015 Times of India Social Impact Award‘ in the International Category.^[5]

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