Wednesday, October 25, 2006

IndiaPost. Arizona student starts nonprofit in India

IndiaPost. Arizona student starts nonprofit in India: "India Post News Service

NEW YORK: All roads seem to lead to India these days. Of late Indian-Americans have been at the forefront of many social, cultural and financial initiatives giving generously of their time, effort and experience while taking mentoring and philanthropy to a new level.

Neeta Umashankar, a 24-year old second year PhD student at UT-Austin in Texas has started a nonprofit called Achieving Sustainable Social Equality through Technology (ASSET) to provide computer literacy to children of sex workers in India as a means of livelihood enhancement and HIV/AIDS prevention.
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