Monthly Meeting March 7th 2006 ETH HG F 33.2 19.00-21.00 Hrs People attended: Andi, James, Cedric, Srinjoy, Chidu, Priyanka, Kirti, Vishwa, Baiju, ShyamC noon.ch: Andi and James are from an organisaton called noon.ch which also works on the similar lines as Asha Zurich. They visited some of asha world projects in India and started funding 4 projects in Delhi, Mumbai, and Varanasi area. Following are some key points: In Delhi the project is for slum children. run by a lady; 4 classes for slum children; 4 teachers, a doctor and nurse; 10,000$ a year! basic food is also given. Mumbai A project of the NGO "Support" for street children giving food and shelter. Varanasi: 2 projects, sponsored by asha worldwide. One project is for mentaly retarded children. 20 children. They have a house one teacher per 4-5 children. They provide a rikshaw for the kids etc etc. Second one is in remote vilage Naugar distrcict near varanasi. Basic education program for 4-5 villages in the direction of Vallabah. Children from age group 4-12 yeras study there. Apart from education, the project also focuses on income generation program; bee keeing project, fertilizer things, seed banks, self help group for women etc. Financial report: (shyam) At the end of Year 2004 we had 21,300 CHF as balance. At the end of 2005 we have 31,000 CHF as balance which includes donation money for tsunami relief about 4000 CHF; Bastar money of 1000CHF etc. (This balance of 31,000 CHF is after spending about 20,000 CHF on projects in 2005) From CAYH we collected approximately 10,500 CHF in 2005. Currnetly we have 34000 CHF in the account. Expected expenses for year 2006 with Akshardeep and Dhule projects: 16,500 CHF Expected expenses for year 2007 with Akshardeep and Dhule projects: 16,500 CHF Andre and Elia's Photo Exhibition: (Vishwa) The exhibition in Brugg got some response and there were some articles in the local news papers about asha zurich. Till now about 16 photos have been sold by Andre and Elia. The disco which was organised in Brugg was not that sucessful. The next exhibiton will start in Baden from 10th March and will continue till 25th March. Project status: (Vishwa and Chidu) (1) Parivar: Extensive discussions were held on Parivar project. Vishwa proposed to cancel the project for the next year. Following were the reasons: - Asha zurich project coordinator, Vikas Mittal was not happy with the performance of the project. - Everytime the money has to be transferred via asha India and this takes time. - Asha Zurich has problems in communicating with Vinayak of Parivar and also he has not even confirmed the receipt of the funding (2000 CHF). Based on these points it was unanimously decided to cancel the project. This will be communicated soon to Vinayak. Vikas will be asked to give a one page report on the project. (2) Akshardeep: It was decided that Baiju will take over the responsibilty of the project slowly from Vishwa. This project is going on well from the last two years so it was unanimously decided to fund the project for the third year also. (3)Vishwa Mandal Sevashram, Dhule: Project was funded for one year now. Final reports for the year has not been reciieved. one year project done! Chidu will call him and ask. Over all the project is doing good and it was decided that after getting the progress and financial reports from father Godfrey we will probably will send the money for the next year! Chidu raised the following points about the projects of Asha Zurich: We should do the things faster and delays from our side should be minimized! we should all think about projects more often and discuss about the projects aspects in the meetings. It was decided that Kirti will be the over all project co ordinator. She will have a overall view on the projects and will keep on pushing people responsible for the projects to act fast on different points. It was also pointed out in the meeting that the next GBM should be in May or June: Kirti brought up the idea of Food Festival to raise funds. She mentioned that this idea was successful in Asha Munich and she will work with Chanda to find the possibilities here in Zurich. Kirti along with Chanda would also like to start some Indian Cooking classes to raise funds.! Priyanka mentioned that in Grunau, Arun and Anjum from IAZ will do some kind of Food festival and small events. For this there will be many people coming from that Geminde and they want to donate the money to Asha. This will be on 20th May and they need two asha volunteers. They will provide us a platform to give a presentation about asha Zurich. Priyanka will inform the members about this in another separate email. Srinjoy mentioned about the next issue of our newsletter Zuriyodhay. He needed the following articles. 1. Dhan 2. Bastar 3. Asha worldwide (srinjoy) 4. Photo Exhibition 5. An article by andre about his visit 6.All events 7. Financial report 8. updates from Vikas, Vishwa and Chidu Cedric mentioned that he is Willing to do web-page and translation work. But he will wait until Greg hands him over all the jobs. Minutes prepared by Vishwa