| Jun 2024 |
Year-end activities, final push to complete building work (with before and after pictures), still trying to get full accreditation |
| Mar 2024 |
Merlet College visit, construction update including wheelchair ramp, Connie’s granddaughter visits, Spring Extravaganza, Holi play |
| Jan 2024 |
Trip to Jaunpur, Maurick College visit, outdoor activities, “Chase Away the Cold” party |
| Nov 2023 |
Re-starting after our forced closure(including lunch and arts classes), evening coaching, accreditation news, and Diwali Celebration. |
| July 2023 |
Preparing to open in Narottampur, the first two days of school at the new site, conflict with the local government school |
| April 2023 |
Updated website, Spring Extravaganza photos |
| Mar 2023 |
Last months of rent: eye testing, pizza party, Holi, show preparations, village canvas, construction update |
| Dec 2022 |
Construction Update |
| Nov 2022 |
Independence Day, Teacher’s Day, school life, exams & results, Andrew, family portraits |
| Oct 2022 |
Construction update |
| Sep 2022 |
Flood update |
| Aug 2022 (#2) |
Flood, construction update |
| Aug 2022 (#1) |
Back to full-time school, summer competition, improved teaching, new textbooks, arts classes, Vikash, Vijay, graduate statistics, construction update |
| Apr 2022 |
Corona, teacher training by Kati, back to school, Holi, foundation dug, circus skills at new site, Class of 2022 |
| Dec 2021 |
completion of one term, art projects, picnic at new site, borewell video |
| Sep 2021 |
land purchase, school re-opening |
| Aug 2021 (#2) |
Saroj Sir’s family support, land, and flood updates |
| Aug 2021 (#1) |
Saroj Sir’s family support, illnesses and flood |
| Jul 2021 |
Saroj Sir, teacher training |
| May 2021 |
Covid-19 in Varanasi, Covid relief distribution |
| April 2021 |
Covid-19 effects on school, graduate update |
| Feb 2020 |
goat calendar, Shivani update, land update, homework packets and gifts, school re-opening |
| Dec 2020 |
effects of Covid-19, library upgrade, graduate classes with projector, Shivani‘s surgery |
| Jun 2020 |
building fund update, neighborhood classes |
| May 2020 (#2) |
Dreams of our own building |
| May 2020 (#1) |
Graduates, covid needs |
| Apr 2020 (#3) |
volunteers |
| Apr 2020 (#2) |
Spring Extravaganza |
| Apr 2020 (#1) |
Covid-19 |
| Oct 2019 |
visit of Dutch teens, Spring Extravaganza, grant from OPS, farewell party |
| Mar 2019 |
Republic Day, science fair, eye testing, PWB, Class of 2019, CD art |
| Dec 2018 |
winter and birthday party;Dagmagpur field trip;BSF visit; lifeskills classes; vaccinations; Roshini, Anusha,
and Monu surgeries; goat calendars |
| Sep 2018 |
Illness, database, extra classes, celebrations, Monu, Ankit update, paying fees |
| Mar 2018 |
Mansi, Shivani, Maurya boys update; Spring Extravaganza |
| Jan 2018 |
financial status, participation in The Touch of Sound, Ankit’s story |
| Dec 2017 |
volunteers, Mansi and Shivani’s health, Maurya boys, Ram Nagar field trip, Shreya in Mensa, birthday party |
| Aug 2017 |
new admissions, competitions, after-school program, grads in college, FCRA, Independence Day video |
| Mar 2017 |
Spring Extravaganza |
| Dec 2016 |
volunteers, rangoli competition, Ankita, Nagwa vs. Bengali kids |
| Aug 2016 |
support received, school painting, new tables, Govinda’s broken arm, flood, Independence Day |
| Apr 2016 (#2) |
Death of Brijesh |
| Apr 2016 (#1) |
Class of 2016 Farewell Party |
| Mar 2016 |
Spring Extravaganza, Class of 2016 |
| Dec 2015 |
Anil Rao, Aradhana news |
| Nov 2015 |
Siddharth Sir’s poem, Children’s Day |
| Sep 2015 |
admissions and class placement, summer competition, disappointing kids |
| Mar 2015 |
Spring Extravaganza, Anusha loses her hearing, Class of 2015 |
| Nov 2014 |
Animals in school, monsoon effects, struggling kids, volunteers, Dutch art workshop, finance report |
| Jun 2014 |
Spring Extravaganza, Class of 2014 |
| Feb 2014 |
School closures, Spring Extravaganza preparation, students’ father’s deaths |
| Oct 2013 |
Mosquito net and water filter distribution, meetings for teen boys, resumption of study |
| Aug 2013 (#2) |
Flood Update |
| Aug 2013 (#1) |
Flood |
| Jul 2013 |
Connie’s visit, Spring Extravaganza with video |
| Apr 2013 |
Spring Extravaganza, library and lab upgrades, Class of 2013 |
| Mar 2013 (#2) |
New English Teacher found, Ankita’s surgery, Spring Extravaganza update |
| Mar 2013 (#1) |
new English teacher needed, Ankita needs surgery, Spring Extravaganza needs |
| Jan 2013 |
Cold weather, Children’s Day with Wilber Sagunaraj, Sarah’s art classes, response to the Delhi rape |
| Sep 2012 |
enrollment, volunteers, Class of 2012, children leave school to work |
| Apr 2012 |
Our first class is ready to go to high school! |
| Mar 2012 |
Spring Extravaganza |
| Jan 2012 |
Spring Extravaganza prep, PWB video, Sarah Hivner’s blog |
| Nov 2011 |
Principal at a distance, After-school program, March against corruption, Baldau Verma |
| Mar 2011 |
volunteers: parachute play, winter fun with Koreans, tree house, guitar, GROW initiative, PWB; Connie to return to US |
| Nov 2010 |
move to new location, shoe theft, exam leak, Dr. Solomon’s training |
| Jul 2010 |
enrollment, planned move |
| Jun 2010 |
Theft, PWB, Spring Extravaganza, Shining Light Scholarship, Community Change |
| Oct 2009 |
enrollment and attendance, Kids Store, volunteers, attitude toward low caste people |
| May 2009 |
general knowledge competition, Spring Extravaganza (Jeanie & Barbara) |
| Feb 2009 |
teaching methods, Spring Extravaganza prep |
| Sep 2008 |
enrollment and class placement, serving lunch, problems of assimilating new students, theft |
| May 2008 |
immunization, after-school program, Spring Extravaganza, Chandu’s update, embroidery opportunity |
| Mar 2008 |
Spring Extravaganza prep, Chandu’s story |
| Dec 2007 |
death of Harsh, PWB, Spring Extravaganza |
| Oct 2007 |
accreditation, Asha Deep gender and caste statistics, English volunteer, teacher pregnancies, kids like Asha Deep |
| Aug 2007 |
enrollment, Asha Deep’s standard |
| Jun 2007 |
donations and purchases, hiring Siddharth Sir, prep for coming year |
| Apr 2007 |
Spring Extravaganza, hopes for coming year |
| May 2006 |
Spring Extravaganza, growth of Asha Deep, prep for coming year |