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Empowering Lalpur: The Asha Ashram Community Initiative

Asha Ashram in Lalpur, Uttar Pradesh, founded in 1998 by Sandeep Pandey and Asha Lucknow, aims to create a self-sustained, socially responsible community in the economically backward village. The project involves grassroots activities, healthcare, education, and vocational training. The unique aspect is the active involvement of the Lalpur community in the ashram's activities. The initiative emphasizes values-based education and creative skills development. Get involved and support this transformative project today!

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Empowering Lalpur: The Asha Ashram Community Initiative

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  1. Asha Ashram Lalpur, Uttar Pradesh A Community Development Initiative

  2. The Asha Ashram • The Asha Ashram was started by Sandeep Pandey and Asha Lucknow in 1998. • The ashram aims to create a self-sustained and socially responsible community in the economically backward (dalit) village of Lalpur • One of the unique aspects of this project is that the Lalpur village community is playing a very active role in the activities of the ashram. They are eager to see this initiative succeed and have given Asha and Sandeep their complete support.

  3. Overview • Community center to tackle various grass root activities like women's issues, unemployment etc. • Providing free health care and education to the villagers • Developing an educational model based on a philosophy that focuses on cultivating values for a just human order and promoting skills that will help a person to become self-reliant • Developing an innovative teaching curriculum that incorporates art and craft to develop the students' creative talents • Teaching vocational skills like bee-keeping, so that they can sustain themselves

  4. Ashram’s Internal meeting

  5. Children at the ashram

  6. Hari: he works and lives at Ashram Most of the staff at the ashram are from Lalpur village

  7. At a house in Lalpur - 2

  8. The Asha Ashram - Bldg 1 This building was constructed as a part of the ashram

  9. The Asha Ashram – Bldg 2

  10. The covered courtyard of the ashram

  11. Children at the ashram talking to a reporter

  12. Fact sheet • Established - 1998 • Total funds disbursed in 2001 - $ 22,196 • Chapters currently involved - Asha Lucknow • 2000 $ 5,000 from Asha Seattle • 1999 $ 200 from Asha Cornell • 1999 $ 800 from Asha MIT • 1999 $ 10,000 from Work an Hour • Beneficiaries – 81 families

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