A surreal moment in the lives of the boys- meeting famous Australian cricketer Ricky Ponting at a major event organized by the Australia India Chamber of Commerce. The Asha video was shown, and the work of Asha was spoken about…
From living in a shanty sandwiched between a railway track and a scrapyard, his father working as a laborer in the scrapyard, having suffered extreme poverty all his life, today he and I stand together outside St Paul’s College of…
This is Chandan from an Asha slum community. From living on rent in a one room shanty, being thrown out of the shanty by its owner, father a labourer in old Delhi earning 120 dollars a month, studying in a…
Asha was delighted to host the University of Queensland Team, Mr Rongyu Li, Deputy Vice-Chancellor and Vice President (Global Engagement), Mr Brett Lovegrove, Pro-Vice-Chancellor (Global Partnerships), Prof. Heather Zwicker, Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Prof. Helen Klaebe,…
Well done Saurabh. We at Asha are so proud of you. Saurabh, a resident of Asha’s Kusumpur Pahari slum community has scored 91.5% in national school end exam with 95% in chemistry, 91% in Physics and 92% in English.
Soft-spoken and unassuming, Sumit from Asha’s Tigri slum community packs a punch on his frail shoulders. His academic scores from his secondary school to his college days are consistently high, and reveal the picture of a bright young boy determined…
A new and worrisome development has taken place in the Delhi University admissions process. Previous admissions were on the basis of marks obtained in the school leaving board exam. That has all changed. There will now be a separate Central…
Sitting in the slum lanes on the ground and motivating school leaving students to work hard for university admissions. There are many Asha communities where there is no building. What a wonderful commitment!!
This is the fascinating story of Asha graduate Priyanka from Ekta Vihar, who carved out a unique path for herself through Asha’s support, is rewriting her own as well as her family’s destiny and reaching new milestones in her career.…
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…
