About Smt Leela Deshpande and Ashrayaa Trust
Humble Beginnings
Smt. Leela Deshpande, the founder of Ashrayaa, used to visit
slums on the weekend as part of her social work. One weekend, she found 2
children with disabilities without parents. She inquired to see if anyone was
able to care for them, however, no one was there. With the support of her
grandfather she decided to take in these two children. Within a month, she had
35 children with physical and mental disabilities under her care. Many orphans
were sent from NIMHANS, and Leela became a full time care-taker of an
orphanage. She soon registered an entity, was gifted a home from her
grandfather, and Ashrayaa was formally started as a children shelter.
Growth
Over the years the number of children with disabilities started to grow, and within a few years she also began to take in orphaned children without disability. Over the years, the number of children has increased to 70 in numbers.
Ashrayaa Trust is a trust with the young heart people. The
average age of the members are in between 25 to 45. The trust resembles today’s
youth who is very much aware of his/ her social responsibilities and is willing
to take upon the challenge to change the situation for the betterment of the
society.
Ashrayaa Trust is one of the well-known and recognized NGO
trusts in the Bengaluru district, Karnataka, India. It is one of the oldest and
honorable trust in Karnataka state.
Services Provided by Ashrayaa
Ashrayaa trust offers the following:
- Community
Service
- Free
education
- Sports
and cultural activity
- Free
food
- Domicile
service for mentally challenged girls
Past Projects of Ashrayaa
Cloth for Work
When people talk of their basic needs, they say food, cloth & shelter, but in the list of development subjects which has more than 100 issues; from domestic violence to global warming. Clothing is not listed as a subject. They think of clothes during disasters only. Why do we treat cloth as mere charitable object- to donate?
Ashrayaa trust, organizes a school uniform donation program
aimed at supporting to underprivileged students. Through this initiative, the
trust collects funds and resources to provide school uniforms to children in
need for every year. Ensuring students have the essential attire for attending
school. The program not only addresses a basic necessity but also encourages
school attendance and fosters a sense of equality among students.
School to School
A small village school’s needs are very basic. Normally
students don’t even have a pencil or copy to write on and a bag, school
uniform, mats for sitting etc. are distant dreams. Scores of children leave
schools for unimaginably petty reasons like lack of a water bottle or inability
of parents to pay the recurring expense of a note book, things easily
channelized from underutilized material in the cities.
‘School to School’ is a unique solution to a problem faced by thousands of
remote village schools, which lack infrastructure and basic facilities,
critical for a child to have basic experience of schooling. School to School
(S2S) initiative is addressing the educational needs of thousands of remote
& resource starved village/ slum schools by channelizing under-utilised
material of city’s affluent schools.
Bag for Cause
The plastic bags you bring home from the supermarket
probably end up in a landfill. Every year, more than 500 billion plastic bags
are distributed, and less than 3% of those bags are recycled. They are
typically made of polyethylene and can take up to 1,000 years to biodegrade in
landfills that emit harmful greenhouse gases. Ashrayaa trust helps educate
people about the ill effects of using plastic through informative stickers and
leaflets at vegetable and fruits vendors.
To solve this issue, Ashrayaa trust has come up with
solution Bag for Cause. This project is working to save the environment from
harmful and deadly plastic, non-woven bags, E-waste helping to empower
underprivileged and tribal women.
Benefits to support to “Bag for cause”
✓ Direct help in employment for Underprivileged
Tribal Women.
Current Focus areas of Ashraya
Children's education
Ashrayaa trust, initiative taken with objective of
appropriate basic educational help and materials from a place of abundance to a
place of need and sending underprivileged children school and supporting their
basic educational needs. The trust providing basic educational materials such
as books, stationary, bags, shoes, school dresses, tuition & school fee and
all other educational needs. They have high hopes that those of us who are more
fortunate will respond to this call of balance, care, compassion and all will
join hands to feel the sheer joy of giving and helping our less fortunate
fellow human beings in need.
Ashrayaa home for mentally challenged girls
Ashrayaa is currently running a home for mentally challenged
destitute girls who have either been abandoned by their families or are unable
to care for them
Expenses of Ashrayaa
Credentials of Ashrayaa
An appeal to you...
We at Ashrayaa are committed to doing our best to realize
the vision of our founder Smt Leela Deshpande. In this noble cause we need your
help, patronage and support. Please visit our Home after making an appointment
and see for yourselves the work we are doing and the impact we are having. As
you can see, an endeavor of this scale requires significant sums of financial
support. We therefore request you to generously donate to our organization so
that we can continue doing service to society. Thank you
Donation details
Account Name : Ashrayaa Trust
Account Number : 44471813401
IFSC Code : SBIN0003982
Bank Name : State Bank of India
Bank Branch : sulthanpalya
