October 2026
Asha inaugurated its 14th Rural Technology Center (RTC) at Vannikonendal, Thirunelveli, its first RTC in the district.
A Vibrant Showcase of Creativity and Tech Skills, with 51 Teams Competing Across Digital Literacy, Coding, Media, and more.
The toilet works taken up under Glovis Sugadharam work in Thiruvallur received wide newspaper coverage in local papers.
As part of Project Sugadharam, a toilet complex was built for girls at the PUP School Thandalam. This was inaugurated by Hyundai Glovis’ MD, Joo Min on 5th April 2017.
15th Sept 2016: Project Deepam that supports a computer centre at Besant Theosophical Higher Secondary School celebrated it first anniversary on 15th Sept 2016. This was also covered in the Adyar Talk.Read More
12th Aug 2016: Materials were distributed to all the 14 rural schools supported as part of Project Sangamam. Of these Hyundai Glovis supports 8 of the schools. This was also covered in the 23rd Aug issue of The Hindu.Read More
20th July 2016: Hyundai Glovis organised a function for signing the MOU for the continuation of their support to the Glovis Project Sangamam for the third year.
27-31 May 2016: Asha Chennai organised its annual RightStart teacher training program from May 27th to May 31st at the IIT Madras campus. About 45 teachers from various Asha Chennai projects and partner organisations participated in the training program.
19 Apr 2016: On the 19th of April 2016, Lakshmi Suryanarayanan passed away . We at Asha Chennai and more broadly Asha for Education lost a pillar of our organization.
Mar/Apr 2016: Excursion was organised for the 4th and 5th standard children from all the 8 schools supported by Hyundai Glovis. Children went in 2 batches on March 19th and April 2nd.
Mar/Apr 2016: Annual day functions were held in March and April at most of the Sangamam schools. Volunteers of Asha Chennai attended most of these functions. Asha sponsored the prizes at these functions as well as snacks for the students.
Asha Chennai is conducting assessments at all the supported government schools as part of project Sangamam Kanini. We have completed the assessments at all the Project Sangamam schools in early Feb 2016. Schools from projects Poorna Vidhya, Sangamam Senji, FTC Seeyapoondi and Project Pearl will be covered shortly. Click hereto see photos from the assessments conducted so far.
2nd Mar 2016: Science day was celebrated in Ramajeri school and we also organised a Chemistry lecture at the school during the month of March. Further bureaus were also distributed to three schools.
Chennai Primary school at Shastrinagar (which is supported by Project Poorna Vidhya) celebrated the National Science day (29th Feb) by organising a science project day at the school. See the photos here
We painted the blackboards at all the Project Sangamam schools in late Feb. Click here for the photos.
On February 5th, school bags and a health/hygiene kit (containing soap, tooth paste, tooth brush, comb and talcum powder) were distributed to all the children studying at the 8 schools supported by Hyundai Glovis. Here are the photos from the event. Here are the photos from the event.
The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) has donated 15 cartons of hardbound books to Asha projects as part of their flood relief effort. These are very informative, educative books with beautiful pictures and illustrations written for children in simple language These were distributed by volunteers of Asha to the government and aided schools in rural and urban areas of Tamil Nadu. click here for more photos from the distribution.
After the severe rains and floods several schools were affected in Kanchipuram and Thiruvallur dist. We provided some basic necessarities to the students at several schools as part of our Chennai Flood Relief work.Here are the photos from the distribution functions.
6th Feb 2016: The PUPS Seeyapoondi school which we support as part of NFTC Seeyapoondi project celebrated annual day function for the first time in over a decade thanks to support from Asha.
Chennai, Thiruvallur and Kancheepuram districts were battered by record breaking rains in November/December 2015. Asha Chennai is working on relief and rehabilitation efforts in the areas where it is already working on other education related projects and also with project partners. Please click here to view for further details.
On 7th December volunteers from Asha Chennai distributed relief materials to people from the gypsy colony at Thiruvanmiyur. Click here for the details and here for the photos from the distribution. We have been working with them for several years as part of Project Manigal. Click here to see the details of all our relief and rehabilitation efforts.
On 10th December relief materials were provided by Asha Chennai to the people of Reddipalayam, a rain/flood affected village near Changelpet in Kanchipuram district. Click here for the photos from this distritbution and here for a report from the distribution. This was done in partnership with TEA trust whose Little Flower school has been supported by Asha for several year. Click here to see the details of all our relief and rehabilitation efforts.
On 9th, 12th and 13th December relief materials were provided by Asha Chennai to the following villages in Thiruvallur Distist: Gandhigramam, Kottaikulam, Katchur and Kaivandur. These are rain/flood affected villages in the Poondi block of Thiruvallur district. Here are the photo albums from the distribution: Gandhigram, Kottaikulam, Katchur, Kaivandur. Here are the detailed reports from the distributions: Gandhigram, Kottaikulam/Katchur, Kaivandur. We have been supporting the government primary schools in these villages as part of Project Sangamam. Click here to see the details of all our relief and rehabilitation efforts.
Books were donated by the IITM Shastra event Pledge a Book campaign. These were distributed to the tuition centre run by Asha at Seeyapoondi and the schools we support at Kannigaiper and Ammambakkam. See the photos here.