abstract
| - Aashritha - The Helping hand Community is a group of dedicated members working towards the improvement of child education in rural areas of India. The ideology of Aashritha members is based upon a strong feeling that any education without moral values is as good as no education. Aashritha aims at providing moral support and care to under-priviledged and physically challenged children, who have are niether encouraged nor nurtured well in the society. Aashritha undertakes a step by step process in selecting the children, who then becomes a part of Aashritha family. Aashritha adopts children with a view towards providing them with education (irrespective of location, cast, religion, age, economic standards and physical abilities) and moral support. They arrange for food and a place of residence for the adopted children during their academic year and make travel arrangements for visitng their respective home-town during vacation periods. They also arrange a loyal (employed) care-taker and a tuitor (for a group of children), to facilitate the stay and education. Aashritha feels that this will help them to concentrate on their studies and make sure that they do not deviate from the prime goal. Aahritha plans to offer a secondary level education (i.e. upto 10th grade). If you have a question as to, where do we get the list of kids who are really in need for this program? Our dedicated team of members are responsible for this and they start 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 the final selection is made. The number of children we support each year depends on the available funds (projected over a year). Aashritha has tie-ups with govermanet funded schools at each location. 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 selected).
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