“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…
An impoverished 4-yard long shanty is where Nageena lives! One has to climb a weak wooden ladder in order to reach Nageena every time. 17-year-old Nageena dwells in Asha’s Seelampur slum community for years. The family of six includes Nageena,…
We are all very excited to share with you the excellent results of the Asha students in their school leaving exams. Amongst 560 Asha slum children who had appeared for the exams, 97 % passed, 210 of the students scored…
“I was born in great poverty to parents who lived in a slum by the railway track. My father was a labourer doing low paid work at Asia’s largest scrapyard, breaking down old cars or machines with crude tools and…
