The overflowing of River Yamuna has caused havoc in the lives of slum dwellers living on the riverbed. Overnight the huts made of mud, cane, grass and plastic sheet were destroyed. Many of the residents lost all their possessions. Asha…
The Hon Scott Farlow MLC, Government Whip in the Legislative Council of the New South Wales Government, hosted a lunch at Parliament House in honor of Dr. Kiran. Sunil and Shikha Lal were the primary organizers, and they invited people…
Dr. Kiran and Tushar had the immense pleasure of meeting with Shemara Wikramanayake CEO of Macquarie Group at their offices in Sydney. The partnership between Macquarie and Asha has been a long-standing one. Other senior members of the Macquarie team…
Dr. Kiran had the opportunity to meet with Katherine Olston, Director of the Centre for English Teaching, and Ward Lee, Deputy Director of Operations, to discuss the possibilities of providing Asha prospective international students with academic English learning prior to…
Dr. Kiran had the honor of meeting an eminent Australian personality, Mr. Maurice Newman AC. He has served in a range of public roles, including as Chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, chair of the board of the Australian Stock…
Message from Tushar Joshi, Asha student- ‘Dr. Kiran was taken for a tour of St Paul’s College, reputed to be one of the finest residential colleges in Australia. What a great privilege it has been for me to be living…
Message from Tushar Joshi, Asha Student doing Masters of International Relation at the University of Sydney – ‘It was a great pleasure for the University of Sydney to host Dr. Kiran Martin, Founder Director of Asha, on Aug 22. She…
It was a crisis when the water from the river Yamuna entered one of the Asha slum communities on the river bed. Asha immediately sprang into action and provided grocery bags, biscuits, bedsheets and towels to all the affected families.…
Dr Kathy Jenkins, a pediatric cardiologist from Harvard Medical School and Raina Cohen, an undergraduate from Harvard, paid a visit to Asha. After a brief orientation at the Head Office and viewing the photo exhibition, the visitors were taken to…
It was a wonderful and blessed moment for everyone in the Asha slum at Zakhira when Dr Kiran paid a visit to the community. The Asha team and the community members warmly welcomed her as she met the children, women,…
