The last few days have been truly overwhelming with Asha students and Children’s Associations celebrating Father’s Day with great love, happiness and joy. Growing up in such despairing conditions, acknowledging such days and celebrating them is a beautiful gesture to…
Asha Women’s and Children’s Associations across slum communities enthusiastically celebrated the World Environment Day (June 5, 2016) by enacting street-plays, organising cleanliness drives, and planting trees, amongst many other activities. The celebrations began with the supervisors giving a little speech…
Growing up in utter despondency in the slums, educating the children are probably the last thing that comes into the minds of the slum dwellers. Children grow up in such weary conditions due to lack of financial and other problems…
Asha’s Children’s Association and university students at the slums celebrated Mother’s Day with lots of love and gratitude. They organised cultural programmes, small group interactions, pot luck lunches, and movie screening based on the theme ‘Mother’s Day’, so as to…
The Women’s Cell of Nanakpura Police station has been conducting self-defence trainings for girls and women from Asha communities. During the course of 10 sessions, the community will be trained for basic self-defence tricks. Over 60 women and girls in…
This World Tuberculosis (TB) Day, the Asha slum communities came together to spread awareness about the disease and its prevention. Standing by the theme of this year – Unite to End TB – the community members of different age groups,…
On March 11, 2016 Dr Kiran convened the first meeting of a new batch of Asha Student Ambassadors. The group is made up of 25 students from slum colonies across Delhi. Dr Kiran congratulated them for being selected as Ambassadors…
Asha’s women celebrated the International Women’s Day across slum communities on March 8, 2016. They took this opportunity to appreciate each other’s contribution towards a better tomorrow. While some women decided to celebrate this day with a potluck lunch at…
This International Women’s Day, here is an acknowledgement to the wonderful efforts of some of the women from Asha communities. Their diligence and a strong desire to achieve something in life makes them stand out amongst others. These women have…
Entering Savda Ghevra slum colony, one can hardly imagine that barely ten years ago the same colony was an isolated, mosquito-infested, overgrown patch of land with no water, toilets, clinics, schools, roads or even public transport. In April 2006, Thokar…
