Asha for Education, DC chapter milestone

Asha DC raised more than $20000 during the year 2003. Out of which it disbursed around $12,000 to projects in India.This is due to some great hard work by its volunteers. One remarkable aspect was the participation of its volunteers in a 40 mile marathon, these volunteers who have no prior experience in running marathons, went through rigorous training every weekend, under the watchful eyes of a professional coach. The concept behind the marathon is that the volunteers will ask for funding from their friends, etc etc stating the cause for which they are running. And this money is given to the chapter. Lots of other chapters have done this quite successfully and for the first time DC did it in year 2003. I was part of the DC chapter for around 10 months, and had a great time meeting a lot of like-minded people and also volunteering during Heritage India festival. Cheers to the Asha DC team.