Project Report
| Jun 9, 2010
$20,000 Grant from Dell
By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
ASSET received a grant of $20,000 from Dell. The money is being used for additional computers for our center in Hyderabad. Our partner organization Prajwala has rescued nearly 5,000 girls from sex trafficking. These additional computers will help train more girls in several locations.
May 3, 2010
Interviews of ASSET students=Mumbai
By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
This video contains the interviews of children of sex workers attending the ASSET training program in Mumbai. Nearly all of the students who have completed the training are employed contributing to their family. Many students from the U.S. Have visited the ASSET center in Mumbai and have interacted with them.
http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Fv%3Dwph6svsGPzU&h=75590
This center is located in a dilapidated municipal school building in the heart of the red light district.
The photo below shows Somu Nepali, who successfully completed the ASSET program and now has a job . Here she is addressing girls rescued from trafficking and children of sex workers, urging them to stay in school, finish the ASSET training.
http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?pid=4462174&o=all&op=1&view=all&subj=357122095006&aid=-1&id=679411985
Dell’s VP & Chief Marketing Officer Erin Nelson will be a key note speaker and 5 Dell women VPs will be speaking and participating at the upcoming Global Women’s Summit http://www.globewomen.org/summit/Summit.htm, being held in Beijing May 20-22. ASSET graduate Somu Nepali's will be one of 3 featured stories about individual girls who have been impacted by Dell YouthConnect funded programs. The emphasis is on how education makes the difference as the great equalizer – with education, we all have a chance.
Mar 8, 2010
ASSET top project chosen by Ericsson to showcase at Tech conference
By Ray Umashankar | Executive Director
ASSET India Foundation's project has been selected as the top project by Swedish Telecomm giant Ericsson who will be promoting it as part of their Technology for Good giving campaign!
Only six were chosen out of 1340 projects from 100 countries. Ericsson will be showcasing this page
http://www.facebook.com/l/7008b;www.globalgiving.org/technology-for-good/
at a technology conference at the end of March and will be giving out GlobalGIving gift certificates to conference participants to support these projects
ASSET India provides hope and successfully eliminates poverty though education and job placement to girls rescued from trafficking and children of sex workers in India. Girls who have completed the ASSET training now work in banks, insurance and software companies.
More and more corporations world-wide are letting fans on Face Book decide who should get their donations, your support on Face Book is very important. By having thousands of fans, ASSET will be in a position to compete for the $ 1million dollars prize in 2011 and help more than 5,000 + victims of trafficking.
Simple steps for your family and friends to "Join" ASSET on Face Book:
After logging into face book, they can open on one of the two links below and "Join" to become ASSET fans:
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?v=info&ref=ts&gid=357122095006
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=188234189796&ref=ts
FAMILY and FRIENDS DON"T HAVE TO DONATE MONEY
Thank you
Ray Umashankar
ASSET India Foundation
rayu42@gmail.comject: