Asha Athens

SSS Project Partner Talk

athens — Mon, 23 Nov 2015 16:40:25 +0000

Education for the Underprivileged Sections of Society with Focus on Mentally-Challenged Students

We are glad to have our beloved project partner, founder of Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha, Dr. Navin Deshpande with us on November 24. He will give a seminar from 3.00 PM – 4.30 PM at the Tate Student Center, Room 479 of University of Georgia.

Dr. Navin Deshpande has dedicated his life working for the mentally challenged children. After working as a medical representative with one of the leading pharmaceutical companies for about 18 years, and then managing his own offset printing business at Nagpur, India for more than 20 years, he started working for mentally challenged children. It is since 1993 that he has been involved in this voluntary initiative and took retirement from his business in the year 2008. Since then, he is totally involved in Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha, a purely charitable trust committed to the noble cause of mentally challenged. Sandnya is based in Nagpur, India and operates a special school established with the sole purpose of catering for those who are mentally challenged. The school provides education and training geared towards the rehabilitation of individuals with special needs. Sandnya also organizes events with schools and colleges to raise awareness about mental disabilities such as Down’s Syndrome, Autism or Cerebral Palsy. Dr. Deshpande’s goal is to serve this noble cause for the remaining of his life. He has extensive experience in special education, vocational training and rehabilitation of mentally challenged, in counselling of sibling and parents of mentally challenged. He has also conducted public awareness programmes on the subject of mental retardation in rural and urban areas.

Asha Garba 2015

athens — Sun, 25 Oct 2015 21:40:01 +0000

October 22, 2015, Tate Grand Hall, UGA

Educating Special Needs Children in India 2015

ashaforedu — Tue, 27 Jan 2015 18:45:00 +0000

A recording of this project partner talk is available here.

Echoes of Asia Music Concert 2013

ashaforedu — Sun, 31 Mar 2013 06:00:00 +0000

7:00 pm – 9:00 pm
Seney-Stovall Chapel

$10, $5 for UGA students

“World Music Program: Echoes of Asia 2013,” Emory School of Music. To feature Chinese Music Ensemble, Carnatic Music Ensemble, Korean Percussion and Gamelan.

Groups will be performing in the traditional outfits and with the original classical and folk instruments.

Asha for Education is a global organization that is committed to community service focused on facilitating education for underprivileged children overseas. Asha supports a wide variety of projects, and the Asha Athens chapter currently helps fund two specific projects. The first project is a school in Maharastra called Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha, which is an institute dedicated to serve mentally disabled children. Another ongoing project is a book bank in West Bengal that strives to provide educational assistance to the needy students from rural and urban areas. All donations and funds raised from this event will go towards the Asha cause by providing textbooks for children and helping them obtain an education and other resources.

Also see http://calendar.uga.edu/detail/education-echoes-of-asia-music-concert/

Team Asha Athens Marathon

ashaforedu — Wed, 14 Mar 2012 06:07:00 +0000

Contribute to the CRC 5K, Midtown Classic run of Aryya Bhattacharyya & Lydia Ray.

Read more here.

Shruti – Melodies of India – 2010

ashaforedu — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 07:05:00 +0000

Shruti:A night of Indian culture,music, and social issues such as education.This years event features flutist Prasad Bhandarkar who is a disciple of Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Amitava Sen on the Violin and Shekhar Pendalwar on the Tabla. We also have a dance performance by the University of Georgia dance group Champa&Chameli, and an exhibition on Indian culture, social issues, and Asha projects around India.

The show (Saturday Feb 27, 2010) at University of Georgia Performing Arts Center, Ramsey Hall was a show to remember, and would love for all of you to attend this charitable cause and also help us spread the word around about the event.

Nartan – A Dance for Hope 2008

ashaforedu — Sun, 13 Apr 2008 06:02:00 +0000

Enjoy a perfect mix of dance cultures of the east and the west. And as you do, you give hope for education to under-privileged children in India.

Badminton Tournament 2007

ashaforedu — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 05:59:00 +0000

Friday, November 2, 2007

The Athens chapter of ‘Asha for Education’ organized a Badminton Tournament open to all UGA students, faculty and staff. The theme of the tournament was ‘Come play for a good cause’. Thanks to the efforts put in by the volunteers, the tournament saw a good turn out.

The funds raised from the tournament will be sent over to Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha, a non-profit organization dedicated to the development and rehabilitation of mentally retarted children (Nagpur, Maharashtra, India). The Asha team at Athens wishes to thank all the participants and also the Badminton Club at UGA for their support.