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And many others, students andemployees, who are interested inobjectives of the community, joined their hands to lead the journey of educating rural India. Now the community is a group of members from different Under-Graduate, Graduate schools,firms, companies etc.The main objective of the com-munity is to provide educationand moral support to the childrenwho are deprived of such oppor-tunities. We invite you to join our community and get involvedin the journey, by giving us your helping hand. Let us all striveand fight as a team to make theHelping Hands Community -Aashritha a success and form achain that would help poor andunder—privileged children, for whom Education is still a dream.
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n today’s competitive world,education is very important for everyone.In India, many children are un-able to attain the fruits of educa-tion because of many reasons.One of the main reasons is due totheir financial status. Many fami-lies who live under poverty lineor on their daily earnings are notable to provide proper educationto their children. Though govern-ment is doing it’s best to providefree education to these kids, thefacilities provided are limited andmany children are still deprivedof their fundamental right toeducation. So, being educatedIndians, it is our responsibility togive a helping hand to these kidsresiding in rural India. Everyoneof us are interested to give their helping hand to the society, butmost of us do not know what todo, where to start and how to do.As the famous saying says, “AnyLong Journey Starts from a Sin-gle Step”, a small group of stu-dents from Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Kanpur, madetheir first step to educate theunder privileged kids from ruralIndia and started a communitynamed “AASHRITHA HELP-ING HANDS COMMUNITY”.
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he Aashritha group hasstarted, what it was meant for.Aashritha has indentified fivechildren from different villages,and has adopted them. All thesekids are Aashritha’s responsibil-ity now.The five kids have been officiallyadmitted to a local school, Hi-maja School, Puttur, AP, India.Founder of Aashritha, Jaya-chandra personally visited theSchool and met the managementof the school to completethe enrolment of the children.Himaja School Correspondentalso came forward to support thecause and gave a discount of 40%on the fees. The funds collectedfrom various sources has been put to it’s purpose. Rupees Tenthousand (Rs 10,000) has been paid as the first term’s fee for thefive kids to the Himaja Schoolfor the year 2008—09. Fee for the second term will made as andwhen required. Aashritha aims atsupporting more kids for the nextacademic year.
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Goals and Ob- jectives
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Non Govern-mental Organi-zation
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Covering Worldunder its Can-opy
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61st Independ-ence Day
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Paatshala pro-gram
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Covering the worldunder its Canopy
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“Hands That Help Are Better Than Hands That Pray”
 
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Kids with Founder of Aashritha and HimajaSchool Correspondent
Non Governmental Organization (NGO)
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e adopt and edu-cate children who arenot in a position to geteducation and are inturn drawn towardschild labor. We atAashritha are driven by the motto to pro-vide extreme care and edu-cation to these children andhelp them achieve their respective dreams.Our long term goal is toopen several residentialschools across India, to beable to educate poor stu-dents by providing financialand moral support. We arenot here to simply give thefunds needed for the educa-tion, but also try and makesure that the funds are util-ized in an effective andefficient manner.Along with the academiceducation, we believe increating general aware-ness, imbibing moral valuesand putting pure and cleanthoughts to the youngminds of these children,without which the educationis incomplete.For monitoring and control-ling reasons, the village or town of education is al-ways in or around the areaof one of our committedmembers.And Aashritha did it.Its gives us a great feel of happiness in informingabout the news thatAashritha got registered asa Non-Governmental Or-ganization (NGO) under Indian act No. 35 of 2001.Aashritha Community is
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ashritha quoted the fa-mous quote from MahatmaGandhi— "
 Almost every-thing that we domay seem insig-nificant, but it isimportant that wedo IT".
Registered as “AashrithaHelping Hands CommunityWelfare Association” andthe registration was done bythe District Registrar of SriBalaji Registrar District.The registration was donein Tirupati, Chittoor Dist.,AP, India on 1st Aug ‘08.
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very penny counts and nomatter how big or small thecontribution is. Donation may be made using the followingthree options whichever isconvenient to you.
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AYPAL is the biggest andthe most secured and trusted payment methods used byover millions throughout theworld. It is more secure totransfer money using your credit card.Aashritha has opened an ac-count in PayPal to make iteasier to donate for thosemembers residing outsideIndia. Please visit our blog ataashrithablogs.blogspot.comto make your donationthrough PayPal.
 
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ashritha is getting recognised by people across the globe.What else could demonstratethis fact more than the latest co-ordinator to join Aashritha.Aashritha establishes its pres-ence in the United States of America. The current center for Aashritha activities is taken up by our coordinator from Dallas,Texas, USA.Although Aashritha unites peo- ple from across the world, theaim lies at the very center of itscreation, India.Aashritha is also spreadingacross corners of India. Notsurprising, Aashritha attracts theyounger and fresh minds of various profile owner - students,service class and businessmen.On similar lines, Aashritha gottwo new coordinators, one fromIndian Institute of Technologyat Kharagpur, West Bengal andthe other from Thane (Mumbai).This establishesAashritha in the East-ern and Western partsof India after a suc-cessful involvementfrom the North andthe South.Aashritha aims atgetting more coor-dinators/volunteers from various parts of the world to spread itsactivities and become more ac-tive.donate a limited amount to theseschools and make sure that thefunds are utilised by the schooladministrators in an effectiveway. The basics include note- books, textbooks, stationeriesand educational items like, atlas,globe, geometry-sets, colours,slates, dictionary, postersof leaders and few sports items.
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ith the aim of improving theoverall standards of education inrural India, Aashritha haslaunched the 'Paathshala' pro-gram. Under this program,Aashritha will support schools/classrooms where the basiclevel of infrastructure or facili-ties are missing. Aashritha willA small contributioncan really impact thelevel of education for dozens of children atonce. The basic aim of 'Paathshala' is to thussupport a small ele-mentary school, there by helping many stu-dents at once.and simply wonderful stu-dents of the school, we alsodonated Three Thousand Ru- pees (Rs 3000.00) to the head-master of the school, under Paathshala Program, promisinga better standard of education to70 students at once. The smileand curiosity on their faces werehuman gestures beyond anywords.
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ayachandra—Founder of Aashritha, visited an elementaryschool in Chittoor, a district instate of Andhra Pradesh, In-dia to mark the celebration of the 61st Independence day. Notonly did we get the chance tocelebrate the freedom and spiritof independence with the small
Kids from Elementary SchoolCelebrating Independence Day
61st Independence Day
Paathshala Program
The Elementary School Build-ing, first to come under Paath-shala Program.Flag Hoisting in the ElementarySchool in Chittoor 
The smile and curiosity ontheir faceswere human gestures be-yond any words
"Education Costs Money, But Then So Does Ignorance."
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