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Welcome to the ASSET India Foundation
 

ASSET which stands for Achieving Sustainable Social Equality through Technology grew out of the passion of a U.S born Indian young woman to educate and provide better opportunities in life for the children of sex workers. The pilot project is being implemented in Chennai with plans to expand to Bangalore and Hyderabad soon.
 

The primary mission of the Foundation is to provide computer literacy for education towards alternate livelihood and as a means of AIDS prevention. The program is designed to assist the children to attain a level of education and familiarity with technology that will enable them to free themselves from being chained to the same profession .

The Foundation administers the following programs (1) Education of the children using Computer Based Functional Literacy software in regional languages using computers and the Internet (2) Using Microfinance to help the sex workers establish, own and operate their technology based small businesses such as computer Kiosks.

"Every Child is an ASSET "
 

Making a difference
In the slums of Chennai, children of sex workers are at the bottom of the rung, among the poorest of the poor. They are illiterate, vulnerable, shunned and ostracized by society.
How ASSET will make a difference
Achieving Sustainable Social Equality through Technology (ASSET) ASSET grew out of the passion of a U.S born Indian young woman to educate and provide better opportunities in life for the children of sex workers. A pilot project is being implemented in Chennai with plans to expand to Bangalore and Hyderabad soon.
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The primary mission of the ASSET is to provide

  • Computer literacy so that choices can be made for an alternate livelihood
  • Education on AIDS prevention.
The program is designed to assist the children attain a level of education and familiarity with technology so that they can free themselves from being chained to the same profession.
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What ASSET India Foundation does

Provides education to the children using Computer Based Functional Literacy software in regional languages using computers and the Internet and

Uses Microfinance to help the sex workers establish, own, and operate their technology based small businesses, such as computer kiosks.
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