ANNUAL REPORT 2002 - Asha for Education
ANNUAL REPORT 2002 - Asha for Education ANNUAL REPORT 2002 - Asha for Education
Several articles appeared in various magazines ranging from traditional newspapers such as TheHindu to Internet-based organizations such as Sulekha. Articles were written by various Ashavolunteers on topics ranging from specific projects that Asha supports in India to theexperiences of a couple of Asha volunteers' epic journey throughout India visiting various Ashasupportedprojects.2002 Ramon Magsaysay Awardee for Emergent LeadershipDr. Sandeep Pandey, one of the founders and early volunteers of Asha for Education wasawarded the 2002 Ramon Magsaysay Award in the Emergent Leadership category for hiswork towards the upliftment of the poor and the underprivileged in India. The entire Ashacommunity around the world is proud his work has found the recognition it deserves. CongratulationsSandeep!It is a tradition exemplified by Gandhi himself. After years of sojourning abroad, aneducated Indian returns home and, foregoing a comfortable career, applies himself tothe great social questions. Mohandas K. Gandhi was a lawyer by training. These days,Indian sojourners abroad are more likely to be learning computer science and engineering andpreparing to join India's high-tech economy, or North America's. Sandeep Pandey was such a personyet he has chosen Gandhi's path.Born to India's middle classes, Pandey studied at Benares Hindu University before attendinggraduate school in the United States. While pursuing a Ph.D. in control theory at theUniversity of California-Berkeley, he joined V.J.P. Srivastavoy and Deepak Gupta to formAsha (Hope), to support education for poor children in India by tapping the resources of Indiansabroad. The enterprising founders raised ten thousand dollars in one year, an auspicious beginningfor an organization that now claims thirty-six North-American chapters and has disbursed nearly onemillion dollars for programs in India. After launching Asha, Pandey himself returned to India,doctorate in hand. He taught briefly at the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology and, in 1992,left the institute to devote himself full-time to Asha's larger purpose: to bring about socioeconomicchange in India through education.In the NewsANNUALREPORT2002pg: 7
Afull expression of Pandey's vision is the Asha ashram in the dalit village of Lalpur, outsideLucknow. There, students live and study among traditional artisans and engage in beekeeping,vegetable gardening, and cottage industries. They follow a special Asha curriculumand fill the air with songs and stories that convey the school's philosophy. The ashram also serves asa retreat center for Asha workshops and provides simple health services for the community. It isintroducing new technologies and livelihood projects. To break down caste barriers, the ashramcommunity conspicuously violates upper-caste taboos against dalits and publicizes anti-dalit crimesand abuses such as bribe taking by local officials.In the NewsThirty-seven-year-old Pandey shares his busy activist life with his wife Arundhati andtheir two children. He is soft-spoken but passionate, as he motivates Asha'svolunteers and young people and shepherds a multitude of projects. How does a onetimeaspiring engineer manage such a life? "I believe in the Gandhian thinking," he says,"that once the path is chalked out, the means will follow."Asha For Education Received Community ServiceLeadership Award From SiliconIndiaAsha for Education received the Community ServiceLeadership Recognition Award from SiliconIndia on March29th, 2002 in Santa Clara, California. At the SiliconIndiaCommunity Awards Banquet, Mr. K.B. Chandrashekar, founder,Exodus Communications and Jamcracker presented the awards. Onbehalf of Asha, Ms. Netika Raval gave a presentation at the banquet.Our thanks to SiliconIndia for instituting this award and forrecognizing Asha's efforts and role in the non-profit sector.ANNUALREPORT2002pg: 8
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Afull expression of Pandey's vision is the <strong>Asha</strong> ashram in the dalit village of Lalpur, outsideLucknow. There, students live and study among traditional artisans and engage in beekeeping,vegetable gardening, and cottage industries. They follow a special <strong>Asha</strong> curriculumand fill the air with songs and stories that convey the school's philosophy. The ashram also serves asa retreat center <strong>for</strong> <strong>Asha</strong> workshops and provides simple health services <strong>for</strong> the community. It isintroducing new technologies and livelihood projects. To break down caste barriers, the ashramcommunity conspicuously violates upper-caste taboos against dalits and publicizes anti-dalit crimesand abuses such as bribe taking by local officials.In the NewsThirty-seven-year-old Pandey shares his busy activist life with his wife Arundhati andtheir two children. He is soft-spoken but passionate, as he motivates <strong>Asha</strong>'svolunteers and young people and shepherds a multitude of projects. How does a onetimeaspiring engineer manage such a life? "I believe in the Gandhian thinking," he says,"that once the path is chalked out, the means will follow."<strong>Asha</strong> For <strong>Education</strong> Received Community ServiceLeadership Award From SiliconIndia<strong>Asha</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Education</strong> received the Community ServiceLeadership Recognition Award from SiliconIndia on March29th, <strong>2002</strong> in Santa Clara, Cali<strong>for</strong>nia. At the SiliconIndiaCommunity Awards Banquet, Mr. K.B. Chandrashekar, founder,Exodus Communications and Jamcracker presented the awards. Onbehalf of <strong>Asha</strong>, Ms. Netika Raval gave a presentation at the banquet.Our thanks to SiliconIndia <strong>for</strong> instituting this award and <strong>for</strong>recognizing <strong>Asha</strong>'s ef<strong>for</strong>ts and role in the non-profit sector.<strong>ANNUAL</strong><strong>REPORT</strong><strong>2002</strong>pg: 8
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