Current Projects:

Sri Chinmaradi rural high school, Shanubhoganahalli, Tarikere, Chikmagalur, Karnataka
The school currently serves students from 9 surrounding hamlets within a 4-6 km radius. The students are from families of poor farmers struggling to survive. Classes are being held in a 5-room building in need of major repair. Basic facilities such as restrooms, library and lab are lacking and the students are barely able to keep up with the high school graduation requirements. The local community is too poor to contribute any resources to the school. OSAAT’s commitment is to fix the roof and build 2 new rooms for the school. OSAAT will partner with the newly formed alumni association of the school consisting of some Cisco employees dedicated to help the school. Estimated cost: $10,000.

Update Sept 11, 2010:
This school project is in progress, see the report sent by school authorities (pdf, 4 pages) PROJECT IN-PROGRESS REPORT

Tejaswi Kannada Primary School, Dharwad, Dharwad, Karnataka
The school is currently serving 375 underprivileged children, whose parents work as masons, carpenters, daily wageworkers, and vegetable vendors surviving on Rs. 15,000 - Rs. 30,000 per year. The school is in need of a library, restrooms and a clean drinking water facility.

Update Dec 1, 2011:
This school project is in progress, see the report sent by school authorities (pdf, 2 pages) PROJECT IN-PROGRESS REPORT

Mahadev Vidyalaya, Ravalgundewadi, Jath, Sangli, Maharastra
School is located in a remove village called 'raval gundevadi' which is in Jatta Taluk, Sangli district in Maharastra. It is at a distance of 70KM from Bijapur ( 2 hour journey by jeep). This is a border town school and both Kannada and Marati medium are taught here. School has Government primary school ( both in Kannada and marathi) but doesn't have High school. School serves more than 200+ children ( both kannada and marathi medium). There are 6 classes. 3 marthi medium and 3 kannada medium. Due to lack of proper high school building, school classes are conducted all over the village. 2 classes are conducted next to Panchayat office, 2 classes in the temple , 1 class next to a house and 1 class in community hall. All the 6 classes have no proper facility and are all running on borrowed rooms. Villagers then decided build a school themselves and collected fund and started the construction. Halfway through they ran out of money and the construction stopped. They constructed foundation and walls for 4 rooms and 1 room doesn’t have roofs. They need total of 6 class rooms, 1 staff room, 1 office room, 1 Science Lab and Toilets for boys and girls. Estimated cost: $40,000, paid $10,000 from OSAAT.

Update Sept 11, 2010:
This school project is in progress, see the report sent by school authorities (pdf, 1 page) PROJECT IN-PROGRESS REPORT