ashanet.org Asha Trust Chennai Scholarship

Organization :Asha Trust Tamil Nadu
Facility : Asha Chennai Scholarships

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Asha Trust – Asha Chennai Scholarships :

Greetings! On behalf of volunteers of Asha Chennai and Support A Child project beneficiaries please accept our heartfelt thanks for your generous support for yet another successful year. We wish all the children success in their exams. We look forward to your continued support again for the coming years. Please feel free to write to us for all your queries at chennai.sac AT ashanet.org. Please look forward to the new list for academic year 2015-2016 in July 2015.

While many of the projects of Asha-Chennai focus on helping schools that educate under-privileged children, we felt there is also a need to help the under-privileged children who attend other schools and colleges spread all over the city and primarily in rural TamilNadu. In addition to providing financial assistance to these children we believe that Asha volunteers can provide role models and provide valuable mentoring to these children.

To this end the Asha Scholarships project aims to fund the school/college fees and cost of uniform and books for children from 1st standard to college (LKG and UKG in exceptional cases). The children should be from under-privileged background and be nominated by a nominator who should be an Asha volunteer or someone trusted by Asha. The nominator would play an active role in mentoring the children.

The Asha Scholarship Guidelines provides detailed criteria by which the children are chosen.

Purpose / Goals :

** Reach a wide and diverse cross-section of children spread over Chennai and rural TamilNadu.
** Provide active mentoring and funding to empower the children in their holistic development and be responsible citizens.

Support – a – Child :

Asha Chennai has launched the Support-A-Child program to support the Asha Scholarships students. As a sponsor under the support a child program, you can sponsor any of the children supported by theAsha-Scholarships project. Your contribution would cover the education expenses of the child you have chosen (including school fees, books and uniforms). Further Asha Chennai volunteers and other people chosen by Asha Chennai would provide mentorship to the supported children. The intention of the Asha Scholarships project is to empower the children to become fully functional adults.

As an SAC sponsor, the following information/support would be provided to you by Asha-Chennai :
** All information we collect about the student including school/college and economic background will be put up in the web page.
** We would provide a progress report at least once a year for school and college students that would include nominator/scholarship group’s statement on the progress of and the challenges facing the student.
** We would enable you the donor to communicate to the child through letters. The letters should be sent to Asha Chennai. Asha Chennai volunteers would send the letters to the child and send any response from the child back to the donor.

To sponsor a child, please do one of the following :
** Identify the specific child you would like to sponsor from the list of children. Note the amount required for the child. Note these are children we have already decided to sponsor based on our estimate of our ability to raise funds. We always have several pending cases. Therefore if you cannot identify a specific child, you could specify the amount of money you would like to sponsor per year (typical range from Rs.2,000 to Rs.15,000 per year) and we can help you choose a child to sponsor. If you wish, you could specify the age and gender of the child you are willing to support as well.
** Donate online using your credit card at our online donations page. Please identify the name of the child you wish to sponsor in the Comments field.
** If you would like to donate by cheque or have any questions about this project, please send an E-mail to Asha Chennai SAC.

Rules :

1. All candidates selected for Scholarship must be approved by the Scholarship Focus Group before releasing payments. Final selection is subject to personal interviews.
2. A maximum funding limit for all students would be set by Asha Chennai and this limit would be imposed for all Asha scholars. This limit would be Rs 1000 over the typical amount charged by a Government aided school for English medium education. We set the limit for the different standards based on this as follows :
** Standard 1 to 10 Rs 10000 ($ 180) for the academic year
Standard 11 & 12 Rs 15000 ($ 270) for the academic year
College students (B.A., B.Sc, B.B.A., B.C.A., Nursing, diploma courses in technical education). (No scholarship for students doing BE or B.Tech). Rs.18000 ($325) for the academic year

Note :
The above limit does not apply for handicapped students requiring special assistance.

3. In the case of school going children, if the fee exceed twice the approved limit, the application will not be considered for scholarship.
4. There should be a genuine and verified economic need for the scholar and his/her family. Total family income not more than Rs 120000 per annum is set as criteria for selection of a student for scholarship.
5. All fresh scholars applying for scholarship should have completed the Scholarship Application Form and all existing scholars should have completed the Application Form for Continuation of Scholarship.
6. Nominator should not in any way benefit monetarily from the scholarship.
7. Proper fee paid receipt in original must be produced before releasing payment. No payment should be paid in advance. Asha would like to obtain original bills for all expenses. However, we recognize that there are genuine circumstances where that is not possible. In such cases, the nominator/mentoring volunteer should obtain a copy of the bills/receipts and certify that the original has been seen and verified and he/she should sign them with date.

Guidelines :

Selection Related :
a. Children studying in government schools should be given higher priority.
b. Preference should be given to handicapped children and girls.
c. Only one child per family should be approved for scholarship
d. Primary focus should be for school students in class 8 to 12. Other children should be considered on case by case basis.
e. Academic excellence should not be a criteria of selection for children under 10 std
f. Home visit and reporting should be done by a person who should not be the nominator or recommending volunteer.
g. 40% of the scholars selected would be college students; 35% would be students of +1 and +2 and 25%.
h. Scholarship should not be approved for Engineering, Medical and Para-medical students.

Disbursal Related :
a. All scholarship amounts shall be paid by cheque only; however, expenses towards conveyance and food incurred by outstation students may be paid by cash upon production of bills.
b. All outstation scholars should come in person for the interview/first disbursal of the academic year at Asha’s expense and subsequent discussion/disbursals can be via email/phone/courier.
c. All payment vouchers should be counter-signed by the Steward.
d. Duly completed and signed Loan Guarantee Forms must be obtained from scholars studying in final year of their college prior to final disbursal for the academic year.

3. Nominator Related :
a. A nominator should not nominate more than 5 scholars. Nominator should submit a one page report on the basis for nominating the child.
b. The nominators are responsible for obtaining bills and other necessary documents from the scholars. Failure to produce the above shall lead to delay/withdrawl of disbursement.
c. In cases where the Focus Group determines that the nominator does not or cannot fulfill their responsibilities, the Focus Group itself shall be the nominator.
d. Nominator should not be the interviewing/mentoring volunteer at the time of interview/disbursal .
e. The nominator should be responsible for the mentoring of the students he/she has nominated and try to meet the student atleast twice a year and report to the Focus Group.
f. Nominators should be able to provide periodic reviews on the progress of their nominees to Asha, Chennai (ie, a Progress Report from school, qualitative assessment of progress etc.)

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Chennai
34 Bhimasena Gardens St.
Mylapore
Chennai, Tamilnadu 600004 , Ph 91-94444-04060
India