1 Coordinators Chapter Coordinator- Vinod Viswanath Project Coordinator- Sanjeev Ranganathan Treasurer- Anita Komanduri

2 An example Asha project: Seva Chakkara Orphanage, Chennai, Tamil Nadu A home for 100 children in all grades from pre-school to college. Runs a primary school for classes I-V Children from class VI go to local schools Provides vocational skills to the children on a case- by-case basis

3 How we worked with Seva Chakkara First visit in Dec ‘99 by an Asha volunteer. Feb ‘01 approved support for teacher’s salaries. May ‘02: Started innovative fund- raiser - Support-A-Child which raises $20,000/year towards basic living expenses, health-care and education. Working with the project we realized that the basic requirements of food, shelter and health-care needed to be met before education.

4 –Next, we worked with the orphanage on providing a permanent home. –$69,400 was raised through many innovative fundraisers including the marathon program at Austin. Continued involvement with Seva Chakkara

5 –Events are decided and organized by volunteer interest and initiatives. –Support-A-Child program –Events for the Austin Community – Plays, game fairs movie screenings etc. –Marathon Program is the biggest fundraiser and is the backbone – raised $80K in the last 2 years –The requirements keep growing and we need help! Fundraising

6 Why Join Asha? Great way to reach out to the underprivileged. Growing organization at the student level. Flexibility of volunteering in events of your choice. Interact with people from diverse backgrounds.

7 How to get involved? Join one of the committees: –Event Planning Committee –Publicity Committee –Projects Committee

8 Event Planning Committee Brainstorm on ideas for fundraising or awareness events. Organize events such as concerts, movies etc. Find sponsors for these events.

9 Publicity Committee Responsible for publicity materials e.g. flyers, ads for Asha events Tabling, recruiting more volunteers Writing press releases and contacting media before events. Draft proposals to secure funds for publicity materials. Maintain the website.

10 Actively participate in learning from projects and selection of projects at the chapter. Maintain the website for each project. Keep track of donors and sponsored kids in support-a-child projects Keep members of aware of ongoing-projects Project Committee