Amherst Chapter Projects

Rashtriya Vidyalaya Education Consortium, Bangalore

VSEI-Amherst’s assistance has been applied in the past to providing various resources -- materials for use in Computer Education and science teaching, and scholarships for children in schools under their supervision and to teacher trainees.
Since 2004, the RVSEI Educational Resource Center has provided resources for the use of teachers and schools in the area. Workshops in Computer Education, Language teaching, and Science Education have been conducted, and will be expanded in scope.

Welfare Society for the Deaf and Retarded, Hooghly, West Bengal

The primary activity of this society is a school for hearing impaired children in Hooghly. VSEI-Amherst has raised funds for assisting them with educational materials, hearing aids, computers and accessories, and materials for science education. This project has been visited by a VSEI-Amherst member several times.. Pictorial Glimpses

National Association for the Blind, Panchmahal Dist., Gujarat

The society runs, among other things, a school for the deaf, a school for the mentally handicapped, and a complex for vocational training for handicapped persons. During the last session, the school for the deaf admitted ten students 4 to 6 years of age, but on the waiting list were 85! Their needs range from rechargable Ni-Cd batteries and teaching aids for the deaf and handicapped to funds for a new building.

Stree Seva Mandir and Prayoga, Chennai

VSEI-Amherst’s assistance to Stree Seva Mandir has been used for assisting children in Anand Ashram, and towards some of the vocational training projects. The assistance to Prayoga has been used for programs for improving science teaching

CCDT ( Committed Communities Development Trust ), Mumbai

CCDT’s work addresses a major problem in Mumbai -- the care and rehabilitation of women who are HIV positive, and their children.
VSEI-Amherst provided substantial assistance to the Vocational Training Program for adult women for the year 2007.

Little Stars School, Varanasi (Uttar Pradesh )

VSEI-Amherst initiated this project after being contacted by Laura Sultan, who had been in communication with the school in Varanasi.
Little Stars School was started in 1996 , to provide an institution for educating the children in some of the poorest working communities in Varanasi, whose education was often neglected because of the economic pressures on their families.
VSEI ’s assistance to the school has been towards some of their most basic needs -- for educational materials, for extending the structures and facilities in the school, and providing basic classroom and library needs. This school is working towards adding the tenth grade, with new programs which will help prepare the students for future careers.