Indian Student and Community Committee

• Nina Desai, Indian Association of Greater Athens
• Sanjeev Kumar, Hindu Yuva
• Rita Mathew, International Graduate Student Affairs Committee, Graduate Student Association
• Masooma Rae, Research Assistant, Office of International Public Service and Outreach
• Sunita Singh, Indian Association of Greater Athens
• Sara Thomas, Asha for Education
• Vijay Veeraghattam, Indian Student Association

Date		Time		Event		Hosting Organizations		Location
Wednesday, March 25		6:00-9:30 pm		Movie Sholay		Asha for Education, Indian Student Association		Miller Learning Center, Room 148
Thursday, March 26		6:30-8:30 pm		Meditation		Asha for Education, Art of Living		Rooker Fireside Lounge, East Campus Village
Friday, March 27		6:30-8:00 pm		Slumdog Millionaire Discussion		Friends of India		Adinkra Hall (4th floor), Memorial Hall
Saturday, March 28		10:00 am-6:00 pm		India Mela		Indian Association of Greater Athens, Warnell School of Forestry, Friends of India		Brooks Mall, Forestry Room 1-304
Monday, March 30		5:30-8:00 pm		Indian Dance Lessons		Asha for Education, Indian Cultural Exchange		Tate Student Center, Dance Rehearsal Hall I
Tuesday, March 31		5:30-8:00 pm		Trivia Night and Game Day, "Journey through India"		Asha for Education, Hindu Yuva		Meyers Programming Room and Quad
Wednesday, April 1		9:30 am-2:00 pm		Student India Fair		Asha for Education, Hindu Yuva		Tate Plaza

Photos from India Week

Movie "Sholay"				Movie "Sholay"
Meditation				Meditation
"Slumdog Millionaire" Discussion				"Slumdog Millionaire" Discussion
"Slumdog Millionaire" Discussion				"Slumdog Millionaire" Discussion
Indian Dance Lessons				Indian Dance Lessons
Indian Dance Lessons				Indian Dance Lessons
Indian Dance Lessons				Indian Dance Lessons
Trivia Night and Game Day "Journey through India"				Trivia Night and Game Day "Journey through India"
Student Indian Fair				Student Indian Fair

India Week Student and Community Organizations

		Art of Living
		Asha for Education
		Association for India's Development
		Friends of India
		Hindu YUVA
		Indian Association of Greater Athens
		Indian Cultural Exchange
		Indian Student Association

Asha for Education

Asha (Hope) for Education is a secular, non-profit organization that believes that education holds the key to catalyzing socio-economic change in India. This organization, established in 1991, now has grown to include 66 chapters worldwide: 45 in the US, 14 in India and 7 in Europe, Singapore and Australia. In each of these chapters, volunteers take personal interest in identifying education-related projects in India, and supporting them through funds and other means. Thus between 1995 and 2004, AfE has disbursed $6.07 million to 385 projects in different parts on India.

Asha-UGA is a student organization at the University of Georgia, Athens. Through various fundraisers and also through generous contributions made by our donors, Asha-UGA is striving to meet the financial commitment to our current projects: Sandnya Sanwardhan Sanstha (SSS) in Maharashtra and Book Bank project in West Bengal. SSS is a research institute dedicated to the development and rehabilitation of mentally handicapped children. SSS currently has about 82 children at 5 different levels of mental retardedness each requiring different amounts of one on one attention. Till date, Asha-UGA has disbursed a total of $26,000 towards this project.

The book bank project is maintained by the rural development unit of Ramakrishna Mission at Narendrapur. The project aims to aid needy students with textbooks, notebooks, school dresses, instrument boxes, bag, etc. Asha-UGA has made a contribution of $5,500 to date. Moving in this direction, we dream that one day every child in India will have access to basic education! With the involvement of the local community to provide financial support and volunteers, this will soon be a reality. If you share the same dream, learn more about how you can help by visiting www.ashanet.org/athens.

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