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On December 14, we celebrated 3 birthdays at Sharanam, for Neelam, Sujana and Sabina. We now have gifts and birthday cards provided by 3 wonderful groups of girls/young women!
Big thanks to:
- Kayla Lewkowicz and the Aasha Sisters in Hopkinton, Mass
- Margaret Ghiglione and her girl scout troop through The American School... outside Paris, France
- Jodi Vangrofsky Hardy and her girl scout troop in Gettysburg, PA
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Aasha Foundation New Aasha friends and volunteers Sonal, Akruti, and Sneha have started weekly soccer outings with the younger Sharanam girls. Here they are on their way to lesson #2...
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Three new Aasha friends have joined hands to contribute to a special Christmas for the Sharanam girls.
With fundraising coordination from Oliver Ritz, contacts/idea from Pooja Desai, and creative talent and workmanship from Rahil Raja, the girls will each receive a tailor-made new dress/salwar to wear on Christmas Day.
T...he clothes are being designed and made by fashion designer Rahil Raja. Here is a selection of photos from the fittings and color/style selection.
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Aasha Foundation In October 2009, we coordinated a visit to Sharanam by the US Consul General for Mumbai, Paul Folmsbee. He read with the girls, everyone danced and chatted about life in Mumbai. After the visit, Paul sent over a badminton set!
Aasha Foundation Today we launch our newest initiative, Aasha Keys to Success, to place new focus on English proficiency and fluency for the Sharanam Girls. We're working with Speakwell Academy (http://speakwell.co.in) to provide their structured quality program to all of the Sharanam girls, with classes 4 days a week for the next 4 mo...nths. It's an exciting new initiative and we're looking forward to achieving tangible results!
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The 3rd and final batch of photos from Aasha Horizons 2009, showing the girls' last day in the office for final presentations, the "graduation" celebration, and saying goodbye and returning to Mumbai.
Thanks again to Steve Ackert & Celeste Bounds for making this trip happen by raising funds through their San Diego Marat...hon run, and to the RRD Chennai team for putting together an amazing program!
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A second batch of photos from our new program, Aasha Horizons.
In Aasha Horizons, 7 girls from the Sharanam Centre traveled from Mumbai to Chennai to spend 2 weeks receiving professional training and mentoring from a Fortune 500 company.
For security and confidentiality reasons, cameras are not allowed in the office. The...se photos show the fun side of Aasha Horizons!
This program was made possible by the incredible support of Steve Ackert and Celeste Bounds who ran the San Diego Marathon to raise the funds for this program. The program has also been made possible by the talented and wonderful team at RR Donnelley Global Outsourcing in Chennai who developed and organized the program.
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This month we launched an exciting new program called Aasha Horizons. Through Aasha Horizons, seven girls from the Sharanam Centre entering the 10th-12th grades have traveled by plane from Mumbai to Chennai, India.
In Chennai, they are participating in a 2 week training/internship program at an American Fortune 500 comp...any with operations in India.
It is an amazing experience for the girls, and has been made possible by the incredible support of Steve Ackert and Celeste Bounds who are running the San Diego Marathon to raise the funds for this program.
The program has also been made possible by the talented and wonderful team at RR Donnelley Global Outsourcing in Chennai who have developed and organized the training and who are mentoring the girls.
For security reasons, cameras aren't allowed in the office, so these photos show the "fun" life experience components of the journey.
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We have a new group of friends, eleven girls (about 11 years old) in a girl scout troop outside of Paris. They attend the American School there. They sent a huge package of stuff -- writing papers, drawing materials, and more!
We've matched up the girls, and all are sending birthday cards to one another for their birthdays.
Thanks American School Girl Scouts!!
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Aasha Foundation School results are trickling in... and wow! All 4 girls in English medium private school passed and will move on to the next grade - high marks for Jyoti & Sujie with an overall "B" in 1st grade. At the Junior College level, Sonam & Indira both passed the
Elena R. Arena Mike and I are here to support Steve and Celeste in their endeavor and Aasha Foundation.
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