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…
This short video shows some of the Asha interventions during this River Bed Crisis. Do have a look. Here is the link for the Video:
Hi everyone, the flood affected families on the River Bed have no homes, so we are helping them to make temporary structures and covering their roofs with water proof material. The Asha Ambassadors from other communities are doing all this…
From the huge dirt filled ponds in the slum, squatting in the jungles, filling cans of water from govt tankers for his needs, studying under the light of a torch, stuttering constantly, never having any money to buy enough food…
Hi everyone, it was such a pleasure for me to meet an old friend Peter Varghese and his wife Margaret today. Peter was the Australian High Commissioner to India in 2009, and it is he along with Liz Peak who…
Dr. Kiran was invited to the University of Queensland by Rongyu Li, Deputy Vice- chancellor and Vice-president of the University for a discussion on the partnership between the University of Queensland and Asha. Other senior officials such as Brett Lovegrove,…
