I haven’t blogged in a bit, but I wanted to let you know of an event you have to attend if you’re on the east coast. I wish I could go, but I’m stuck here in a snowstorm in the Midwest.

The event is called Ehsaas ‘07. It’s an intercollegiate dance show from which 100% of the proceeds directly benefit schools established by Asha Philadelphia in India - be it providing funds for educators, school supplies, or any other means for educational betterment. Asha Philadelphia consists of both Philadelphia area schools as well as other individuals who show an interest in supporting the cause; the students involved in organizing this event are from: Cornell University, Drexel University, George Washington University, Lehigh University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

The show itself will be held at the University of Pennsylvania’s Irvine Auditorium on February 16, 2007. Dance teams from Villanova, JHU, Lehigh, Bryn Mawr, Yale, UPenn, SUNY Genseo, Princeton, Temple, Drexel will be performing; as well as a guest appearance by a capella group GW Geet from George Washington University and a group of children from the Dancing Shiva Performing Arts Center as well as Brick City Bhangra - a conglomerate dance team of students from various universities in New Jersey. The show aims to raise at least $10,000 to support Asha Philadelphia schools, but to also spread awareness about Asha’s mission, issues including child prostitution, illiteracy, HIV/AIDS, and others facing the more than half of India’s children living in poverty.

The show is organized purely by students and hopes to engage a broad audience of various different ages, interests, and ethnicities, uniting for a common goal - betterment of education and socio-economic change in India through the promotion of basic education.

In order to send 100% of the ticket sales directly to Asha Philadelphia supported schools in India, we encourage donors and sponsors to donate money to Asha for Education Philadelphia with a memo statement to contribute funds to administrative funds of Ehsaas ‘07. The more money we raise to pay our technical charges (lighting, sound, etc) the more money we can send directly to the children from our ticket sales.

I wish they have events like this to better education in other countries. Hope you guys can attend!