By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
We are in the process of setting up a pilot project in the state of Orissa to train a small group of children of sex workers/girls rescued from trafficking to enter a two year Nursing program
The pilot is being set up as follows:
1. ASSET is working with local NGOs/Government HIV/AIDS agencies to identify five girls from our target population
2. The five girls will already be attending a municipal school and in the high school age group.
3. These five girls should be willing to finish the schooling to qualify for the nurses training.
4. ASSET will provided the necessary support for having the five girls finish their schooling and help them join Kalinga Nursing college in Bhubaneshwar, Orissa.
5. Once this pilot is underway, plans will be made to replicate it in other cities.
New Partnership
ASSET India Foundation has entered into a partnership with the Tamil Nadu Foundation (TNF) to use their computer facilities and teachers to train ASSET students in Chennai. In May 2010.Tamil Nadu Foundation recognized Dr. Nita Umashankar as a professional under forty making the most significant social impact in Tamil Nadu. The partnership with TNF is in place of ICWO with whom we had to cancel the partnership agreement due to lack of compliance.
India recently passed the Right to Education into law and the link below has been submitted by ASSET's NGO partner SMILE Foundation:
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