ASHA is charged by the President of the United States with administering a worldwide assistance program with the objective of promoting American ideas and values abroad.
The goal of the ASHA program is to strengthen self-sustaining schools, libraries and medical centers that best demonstrate American ideas and practices abroad.
ASHA assistance is provided to private non-profit institutions, which are continuously identified as American and act as effective cultural presence centers.
[1] The ASHA program has facilitated the development of superior libraries, schools, and medical centers in over 76 countries, thus impacting the regions of Africa, Asia, Eurasia, Europe, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East.
ASHA grants are awarded to assist in capital improvements such as building or renovation of facilities and procurement of scientific, medical, and educational equipment.