Asha student Amritesh reaches at Queensland
Amritesh has reached Brisbane! Beautiful accommodation at University of Queensland – International. Imagine the huge contrast with his tiny home in the slum.
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Asha celebrates Week of Hope
Hello everyone, we are celebrating Week of Hope this week at Asha. There is a lot of discouragement and desperation around specially among those who have lost their jobs and have no source of income to support their families. Dr…
Asha Student Amritesh from Kusumpur Pahadi Slum Community
This is the wonderful story of Asha slum student Amritesh in his own words. He is on his way to Brisbane to do his Masters at University of Queensland.In Dr Kiran’s words: May we enable all the poor children of…
Dr Kiran Martin, Founder of Asha Society, addresses Slum Dwellers on Myths related to COVID vaccines
Hi folks, there are still a few people who are not willing to take the vaccine because of certain myths and superstitions surrounding the vaccine in India. Some of these are: – men will become impotent or have erectile dysfunction-…
Dr Kiran Martin, Founder of Asha: Cultivating Hope during the Pandemic
Hello folks, the third wave has brought despair and fatigue in the slum communities. I have made a video on Cultivating Hope during the Pandemic. I have explained how Hope can be cultivated by us all so that we don’t…
Vaccination campaign in the Asha slum communities
In the first week of January, when the Government of India announced its decision to vaccinate the frontline workers and elderly with the precautionary or the booster dose of Covid vaccine as well as vaccinate all children in the 15-18…
Dr Kiran Martin, Founder and Director of Asha speaks on Non Violence
Dr Kiran, Founder and Director of Asha speaks on Non-Violence. Subscribe to our YouTube channel to get the regular Asha updates.
Asha COVID-19 Emergency Response: Omicron rages though the slums
Hello everyone, Omicron is raging through the slums these days. More than half of those we test are positive. And we are only testing the elderly, or those with comorbidities. We are working very hard to continue vaccination camps in…
Asha COVID-19 Emergency Response: PCR tests conducted in Asha Slum Communities
Hello everyone, I have started getting PCR tests for a sample of the population in certain communities, privately, at our own cost. So many people have colds and coughs, and the aim is to determine whether it is mostly Covid…
Vaccination to combat Covid-19 in Asha Slum Communities
98-year-old Akhila from Seelampur and many other elderly and differently-abled slum residents would not have received Covid-19 vaccination if there were no vaccination camps across the Asha centres! Asha has strengthened the Government of India’s Covid-19 vaccination drive and made…