This is Chandan. He lived in poverty all his life in an Asha slum community, his father picking up heavy boxes of copper wire from trucks, and manually transporting them into storage spaces. I remember meeting him when he was…
A surreal moment in the lives of the boys- meeting famous Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting at a major event organized by the Australia India Chamber of Commerce. The Asha video was shown, and the work of Asha was spoken about…
Hello everyone, here’s a copy of a speech given by the Australian Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare,where he refers to Asha and to Tushar. It’s a long key note address, but the part relevant to Asha is as below.…
I met with the Governor of Victoria the Hon Linda Dessau who is the Patron of Australian Friends of Asha. She and her husband Anthony had visited Asha some years ago. She was delighted to hear of the progress of…
350 families lost everything as their homes were flooded from the rising levels of the River Yamuna. May Asha’s River of Love flow through their lives, from where they may quench their thirst for compassion and kindness. May the Asha…
I had the great joy of meeting the Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of Melbourne. The two wonderful days of engaging with faculty and officials at the highest level were organized by Professor Jim McCluskey, Deputy VC Research;…
May we love the children in our communities with pure hearts, become a place for them where they can deposit their worries, may we deliver them from all their troubles and calamities, and may we always be worthy of their…
From living in a shanty sandwiched between a railway track and a scrapyard, his father working as a laborer in the scrapyard, having suffered extreme poverty all his life, today he and I stand together outside St Paul’s College of…
Rajkumari, 70 years old, widow, lives in Kalkaji Slum. She originally belonged to a small village in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Her parents, landless farmers, were forced to marry her when she was only fourteen. The young couple shifted…
This is Chandan from an Asha slum community. From living on rent in a one room shanty, being thrown out of the shanty by its owner, father a labourer in old Delhi earning 120 dollars a month, studying in a…
