At the age of 19, Firoz has been through more than other teenagers could imagine. “My life is very different from the other students in my college,” said Asha student, Firoz while working at his small roadside barbershop. Firoz along…
“I was born in great poverty to parents who lived in Asha’s Jeevan Nagar slum community. I live in a small shanty with my parents and two younger siblings. My father is daily wage labourer and manages to earn INR…
We are all very excited to share with you that this year, till date 110 Asha high school graduates have secured admission to the undergraduate courses in different colleges of the prestigious University of Delhi. Out of these 61 are…
“My father, a daily wage labourer, was working on the terrace of a building under construction. It was raining cats and dogs that whole day. My mother asked my father to not work over-time that day, but he did not…
“I have seen borrowers standing at our door aggressively knocking to barge in. I and my three younger siblings used to hide under the only bed, which was partially broken, we had, to keep us from them,” recalls Shivani. The…
A slum dweller of Asha’s Seelampur slum community- Pooja has seen and heard stories of people dying to either the negligence by hospital staff or due to the inaccessibility of health centres in her village. “I was visiting my grandparents…
Sunaina grew up seeing her father scorching himself under a fiery sun while toiling in a rented farm. “Not even a single day passed that my father, a farmer, didn’t come home with calluses on his hands and severe back…
A native of Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh, Archana migrated to Delhi some two decades ago. She was in her mother’s womb when the family decided to settle in Asha’s Mayapuri slum community. Archana was born under the guidance of Asha and…
“We would sit on the pavement outside and wait for amma (mother) to give us dry chapatis soaked in water,” recalls a teary-eyed Mehjabeen. The family of Mehjabeen, daughter of a daily wage mason Mohammad Raees migrated to Janta Camp…
“The memories of those dark days of my life still haunts me. My mother was on the death bed and my father used to do all the domestic chores as well as took care of mother and us” said a…
