The glamorous hustle-bustle of a metro city wholly conceals the harsh reality of slum lives swelling along its fringes. The people sitting across the lustrous glass-walls in the lavish eateries keep themselves seeing the pale and malnourished profiles of the…
Expecting a child always brings radiance on the face of a woman. But for Sabiha, that delight didn’t stay for long, as she was diagnosed with Tuberculosis (TB). “When I was running in the first trimester of pregnancy, I could…
80-year-old Shakuntala, who once was well settled in Punjab is now surviving at the mercy of her neighbours. She resides with her only son at Peeragarhi, Asha’s slum community. She does not keep well and soon she started losing her…
For Sapna, exercise and balanced diet is key to good diabetes control during pregnancy. “I am pricked twice every day with insulin shots”-she says. To reach Sapna’s shanty one must walk along a dirty and open drain for a few…
With the Yamuna river in spate due to the heavy monsoon rains, around seven thousand people from Asha’s New Seelampur slum community are displaced with no food and shelter. It is heart-wrenching to see people from this settlement on the…
