Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Boston. Show all posts

Saturday, October 06, 2012

Thru the Ages–Sakhi Dance group concert

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Sakhi Dance group and Asha for Education, presents “Through the Ages” – an evening of classical Indian dance exploring popular and rare musical compositions. Sakhi is a team of well-established dancers from the New England area that take pleasure in performing together to help a worthy a cause. Sakhi is teaming with “Asha for Education” (Boston Chapter)to help raise funds.

Where : Keefe Tech High School, 750 winter street, Framingham , MA – 01702
When : October 27th , 2012 , Saturday
Time : 5 pm to 7pm
Dinner will be available for purchase after the show.
Please buy tickets online and support this cause: http://www.ashanet.org/mit/index.php

Asha for Education is a non-profit secular organization dedicated to change in India by focusing on basic education in the belief that education is a critical requisite for socio-economic change.

Please feel free to send along information about this show to people who would be willing to support !!

Also help us publicize using the facebook page below:

http://www.facebook.com/#!/events/532843343408803/

Friday, March 23, 2012

Get Involved in 'Asha for Education'

Hello Folks,

We are actively looking for more volunteers to join our web, treasury and projects team at Boston/MIT. There are various ways in which you can volunteer with the Asha Boston/MIT Chapter. We offer opportunities to get involved in the grassroots projects we support in India as well in the process of raising the funds to support these projects. If interested, please email us at mit [at] ashanet [dot] org for more details.


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Thursday, May 27, 2010

Boston

Loved this image from massconvention:-

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Saturday, April 10, 2010

Great chance to meet Mr. Chennaiah on May 2nd

Chennaiah Poguri is the founder and former General Secretary of Andhra Pradesh Vyavasaya Viritidarulu Union (APVUU) - a federation of agricultural labourers unions in Andra Pradesh. He currently serves as a secretary for national coordination for APVVU. He also serves on various national level organizations like National Alliance of People’s Movement (NAPM) and National Center for Labour. He is a very motivational speaker to listen to and brings a grass root level perspective on various issues relating to socio-economic and political rights of the underpriveliged, problems faced by the agricultural sector in the country in the face of globalization etc. In his talk Mr.Chennaiah will be touching upon various grass root level issues in rural India primarily focusing on utilizing National Rural Employment Garuntee Act (NREGA) to create economic sustainability in rural communities.

Asha for Education, MIT/Boston has been partnering with Sahanivasa for the more than a decade on various projects like supporting before and after school educational coaching centers for government school students in Chittoor district, rehabilitating the victims of Tsunami in Tada mandal etc. For more information on Sahanivasa please visit the following links:

http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=155
http://www.ashanet.org/projects/project-view.php?p=709

For more background information on Mr.Chennaiah please visit:
http://data.ashanet.org/files/Chapters/MIT/Projects/Sahanivasa/Brief_C_V_Chennaiah_APVVU.doc