Events – Asha Stanford https://stanford.ashanet.org The Stanford, CA chapter of Asha for Education Wed, 03 Apr 2019 17:08:01 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.8 Talk by Sandeep Pandey https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2017/07/talk-by-sandeep-pandey/ https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2017/07/talk-by-sandeep-pandey/#respond Wed, 26 Jul 2017 17:40:51 +0000 http://stanford.ashanet.org/?p=776 The SV chapter of Asha for Education, with the support of Stanford, Berkeley, and San Francisco chapters organized a talk by Dr. Sandeep Pandey, co-founder of the organization at Stanford University on 26th July at 7:15 PM in the Havana room of the Graduate Community Center, 750 Escondido Rd, Stanford, CA.

Sandeep Pandey, a Magsaysay award recipient, has been fighting for the cause of education of children on the ground in India. In his talk, he addressed the challenges and opportunities facing us in making sure no child is left uneducated. He discussed the current state of affairs in education and socio-economic inequality across India followed by a vibrant session of Q&A.
 
Topic:
Education in India: Challenges and Opportunities in the 21st Century
 
Trivia: Over the course of last 26 years, Asha for Education has raised over 48 million US $ and helped over 400 projects in 28 states across India. 
 
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Asha Stanford, in collaboration with AID Bay Area, hosted a talk (Facebook event link) by the prominent reporter, P. Sainath. The talk was organized in the Havana Room of the Graduate Community Center, 750 Escondido Road, CA 94305, at 7:00pm and attracted a full house.


Details:
Sainath is an acknowledged expert on India’s rural poor and farming communities, and a journalist who has won over 40 awards including the Ramon Magsaysay Award, Amnesty International’s Global Journalism Prize and the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali prize for development and human rights.  He is the author of Everybody Loves a Good Drought (1996), and has spent, on average, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions, writing from there for the country’s largest newspapers, including The Times of India and The Hindu, of which he was rural editor for a decade. Drawing on his 36- year career as a journalist, he talked about the challenges India faces in ensuring inclusive and equitable  development after 25 years of economic reforms.
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The Bay Area’s biggest Holi celebration will be held at Sandhill Fields, Stanford on April 8th and April 9th 2017 from 11 am – 3 pm.
Watch this space to learn more…

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Asha Stanford’s Dandiya event was featured in India Abroad Magazine. Read here.

]]> https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/11/asha-dandiya-featured-in-india-abroad-magazine/feed/ 0 Asha Thanks You For Dandiya 2015! https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/10/asha-thanks-you-for-dandiya-2015/ https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/10/asha-thanks-you-for-dandiya-2015/#respond Mon, 26 Oct 2015 05:22:35 +0000 http://stanford.ashanet.org/?p=595 Thank you for supporting us at Asha Dandiya 2015. All proceeds from this event will directly benefit the Borderless World Foundation, an organization supported by Asha for Education, that has been transforming the lives of orphaned girls in the Kashmir valley for more than fifteen years. With a proven track record, the organization aims to double the number of girls it supports by building a home in Kupwara, Kashmir.

 If you would like to further help the cause, you can make your contributions here: Donate to BWF.

  • Please fill out this survey. Tell us what you enjoyed, and where we should improve.

  • Check out the event photos and video on our facebook page!

And here’s a great video highlight of Asha Dandiya 2015 by our Asha SV volunteers Vishak and Saranya, enjoy! 🙂

 

Cheers!

The Asha Dandiya Team

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Asha Stanford invites you to our annual welcome dinner at the Kennedy Commons Great Room from 6pm-8:30pm this Saturday, September 26th. This event is for anyone on campus, not just new students! Please distribute widely.

 

About Asha Stanford:

  • We are both an on-campus student group and a chapter of the Asha for Education non-profit organization.
  • Our group is fun and diverse, with members of all ages and from different walks of life. The defining aspect of our community is a focus on social issues in India.
  • We regularly host speakers working at the grassroots level, like P Sainath, Piya Sorcar or Ravi Kuchimanchi, to give us a new perspective on the multi-faceted problems facing India.
  • Several members actively engage with NGOs working in India to help lead an impact.
  • Finally, we organize fundraisers whose proceeds go towards these projects– we’re responsible for the popular Asha Stanford Holi and are gearing up for a fun-filled Dandiya event next month, so stay tuned for details about that and let us know if you’re interested in helping!
]]> https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/09/asha-stanford-welcome-event-2015/feed/ 0 The Everyday Lives of Everyday People – A conversation with P. Sainath https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/05/the-everyday-lives-of-everyday-people-a-conversation-with-p-sainath/ https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/05/the-everyday-lives-of-everyday-people-a-conversation-with-p-sainath/#respond Wed, 06 May 2015 21:47:30 +0000 http://stanford.ashanet.org/?p=325

Lecture | May 5 2015 | 7:00-8:30 p.m. | The Great Room, Donald Kennedy Commons, Escondido Village, Stanford University

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P. Sainath, Journalist

AID – Bay Area Chapter, for the talk at Stanford.

Asha Stanford and AID – Bay Area Chapter hosted the veteran reporter, P. Sainath, on his recent project, the People’s Archive of Rural India (PARI) on May 5, 2015 to a packed room.

P Sainath addressing a full house.

P Sainath addressing a full house.

The People’s Archive of Rural India combines text, audio, video, and photographs to present what is both a living journal and a growing online archive. It’s a unique and ambitious movement to document the diversity of rural India, home to 833 million people speaking 780 languages. PARI, is aimed at recording the everyday lives of everyday people, to document the stories from what Sainath has called the “continent within a sub-continent”.

The site was launched in December 2014. The website is not-for-profit, free to view and all the contributors – journalists, writers, film-makers, editors, translators, engineers, lawyers and accountants – are volunteers. The website hopes to grow by public participation.

About the speaker:
Over a career spanning 34 years, Sainath has won over 40 awards for his reporting, including the 2007 Ramon Magsaysay Award and the first Amnesty International’s Global Human Rights Journalism Prize in 2000. His book, Everybody Loves a Good Drought, has remained a non-fiction bestseller for decades and was declared a Penguin Classic in 2012. He just concluded teaching two semester-long courses in the Program for South Asian Studies at Princeton University.

More on the archive:
The Atlantic: Documenting India’s Villages Before They Vanish
Al Jazeera America: People’s Archive of Rural India: Collecting the stories and faces that might otherwise be forgotten
Yale Herald: Sitting down with P. Sainath
Public Books: Everyday India

 

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The Bay Area’s biggest Holi celebration will be held at Sandhill Fields, Stanford on April 4th and April 5th 2015 from 11 am – 3 pm.

Learn more…

 

]]> https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2015/03/holi-2015/feed/ 0 Dish Dash and Dinner! https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2014/10/dish-dash-and-dinner/ https://stanford.ashanet.org/blog/2014/10/dish-dash-and-dinner/#respond Mon, 06 Oct 2014 00:38:46 +0000 http://stanford.ashanet.org/?p=377 Learn about Asha for Education, network and make friends while hiking the ‘Dish’ near Stanford! 

RSVP at http://bit.ly/asha-stanford-dish/

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Asha Stanford, Center for South Asia (CSA) and Stanford India Association (SIA) co-host a this speaker series. The talks are on most Thursdays at Noon. Lunch will be provided. Click here to learn more.
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Spring 2014 Speaker Details

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