Ashraya Initiative for Children

We have student-run branches presently active in the following locations:

Montreal, Canada

Our AIC Canada Board consists of Directors Samantha Kumar, Rebecca Ronsley, Pamela Suneja, and Jessica Worley. Our Montreal-based branch is run by McGill students Rebecca Ronsley and Jessica Worley (co-Presidents), Samantha Kumar and Syamala Kalyanasundaram (co-VP Events), Rajashree Sen (VP Finance), Richa Khatri (VP Publicity), Shauna Mahajan (VP Administration), and Kanako Hasegawa (VP Grants), with immense amounts of help from all of the other committed AIC members at McGill.

Tokyo, Japan

AIC JapanStudents from all around Tokyo gather regularly to discuss ideas and organize events for AIC. The branch is led by Asami Matsumoto (President), Miho Kashiyama (Vice President), Naoto Takayanagi (Secretary), along with the Corporate Sponsorship Committee (Toru Endo, Tomomi Hirata, and Koki Tomita), the Membership Committee (Ryuji Tabata, Shinji Horikoshi, and Yohei Yamaguchi), Technology (Seiichi Takeda), and the Events Committee (Kanae Umeda, Sachi Watanabe, Tomomi Hirata, and Misa Sugimoto).

London, U.K.

The newly-formed London branch is located at the London School of Economics and is managed by Kaminika Morjaria (AIC Vice President), Beth Harrison, and Ayako Komine.

AIC Austria

Rohrbach, Austria

Julia Neubauer (AIC Treasurer) runs the Austria branch single-handedly, based primarily in her hometown of Rohrbach, Austria. Although she studies at Princeton University most of the year and is usually only in Austria during her breaks and summers, she still manages to rally a great deal of much-appreciated support within her home community.

Atlanta, U.S.A

Our Atlanta branch runs out of Emory University under the leadership of Elizabeth Sholtys (President), Mohit Gupta (Treasurer, Grants Chair), Sarika Kasaraneni (Secretary), Alex Spengler (Publicity Chair), and Sheena Jeswani (Fundraising Chair).

AIC Pune

Pune, India

We have only recently started an official branch in Pune (beyond the home itself), the function of which is to work on fundraising, publicity, collaborating with other local NGOs and social workers, arranging for material donations, and raising public awareness. The branch managers are Kedar Khivansara and the current Home Director(s).

For information on starting an AIC branch in your hometown or at your university, please contact us!