Asha was founded in 1991 by V.J.P.Srivatsavoy, Deepak Gupta, and Sandeep Pandey at the University of California, Berkeley.
The mission of Asha is "To catalyze socio-economic change in India through the education of underprivileged children."
As of 2019, there were 46 active Asha chapters globally, across the U.S., Canada, Europe and India.
[2] The Board of Directors are elected every two years and their names are available on the organization's website.
Since 1997, Asha for Education has disbursed over $45 million to date to over 400 project partners.