Ram Singh, a 75 year old man, originally from the state of Uttar Pradesh, moved to Delhi in 1986 along with his wife and adopted son in search of better employment opportunities. Ram Singh used to work in a Bidi…
It was a proud moment for Asha when Santosh, the first boy from the slums of Delhi graduated from the prestigious Delhi Technical University (Formerly Delhi College of Engineering) in Computer Science Engineering. He has recently secured a job as…
Asha partners with a US based organization called Vitamin Angels. They provide us with Vitamin A for our children between 1 and 5 years of age. They came to Asha to do some training and also gave us doses of…
Hello folks, I have recorded a video on one of Asha’s most important values, that of Dignity, specially in the context of the poor. Thank you for listening.
Amritesh has reached Brisbane! Beautiful accommodation at University of Queensland – International. Imagine the huge contrast with his tiny home in the slum.
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…
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…
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-…
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…
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…
