Category Asha COVID-19 Emergency Response

There has recently been a high growth of severely malnourished women in the Asha slums. Many women have lost a lot of weight and have a very low BMI owing to the after-effects of the lockdown in India. Asha has…

It is widely known today that COVID-19 is spread through respiratory droplets. To reduce the spread of this virus, WHO has recommended wearing masks in public settings along with maintaining social distancing measures. With the rising cases in India, Asha…

At this time each year, Typhoid cases tend to increase in the slums. The change in the weather brings with it this disease that rapidly affects children aged 2 and above. The pandemic has made the procurement of vaccines highly…

With the rising cases of COVID-19 positive cases in India with each passing day, India has now become the third worst-affected country in the world. This has affected the Asha slum communities as well wherein there have been multiple positive…

The pandemic has brought along with it the increase in poverty, especially in the slums where most families are either living on one meal a day or going to bed on hungry stomachs. Amongst them, it has been the women…

COVID-19 has had lasting after-effects on the poorest across the world, especially among the slums where every day is a fight for survival. The Asha slums have witnessed a high increase in malnutrition children which has been a direct repercussion…

To combat malnutrition amongst young children in the slums, the highly nutritious and delicious ‘Asha High Energy Laddoo’ has been distributed to hundreds of young children in all the slum communities. This laddoo is going to help in the growth…

There have been many horrendous after-effects of the lockdown, one of them is how healthy young children in the slums have fallen back into malnutrition. As slum families were left with no job and income to feed their children, many…