If Wishes Do Come True, These are Ours

The Ashoka Tree Wish-List
 We Need Volunteers/Interns For:
  • Our Up-cycling project - preferably with basic interest in design and craft work - to work with our mothers and retired teachers who need an income
  • Project Smile - reading with our anganwadi children or working on small art/craft/singing/dancing projects
  • Blackboard project - chalkboard painting walls in anganwadis 
  • Anganwadi Infrastructure Maintenance Project - funding or organizing these projects which run from plastering walls to building toilets for little children
  • Anganwadi Book&Toy Box Project
  • Donation collection, sorting and distribution projects 


For Anganwadis with a total of 300 children aged 2-6 yrs
  • Activity Books
  • Activity Blocks
  • Crayons
  • Colour pencils
  • Pencils
  • Erasers & Sharpners
  • Drawing Notebooks
  • Toys (for 2-6 year olds only)
  • Tricycles – 15 (new/used in working condition)
  • Baby Chairs – 50 (new/used in working condition)
  • Mixies – 25 (new/used in good working condition)
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  • Donors to sponsor Uniforms – 3 anganwadis

  • Light bulbs (preferably CFLs/LEDs) - #10
  • Fans - #2
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  • False Ceiling Conversions (covering asbestos sheets) – #5 Anganwadis
  • Vegetable Gardens
  • Painting Blackboards/ Black chalk paint on walls


For Father Tezza’s Special School, Wynad
  • Clothes for girls (aged 5-45 yrs)
  • Sanitary napkins
  • Adult diapers
  • Blankets & bed linen – for the upcoming monsoon season
  • Cycles – 5-10 adult cycles (new/used in working condition)
  • Computers - #20 (new/used in working condition)
  • Donors to sponsor fish, eggs & milk – every month on a long-term baisis (this is an annual monthly donation that would feed all the children here)
Get in touch with us at reethz@theashokatree.org if you'd like to help spread more smiles! 

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