Sound of Success
Imagine an infant wailing in the cradle while the mother’s perhaps in the kitchen or just out of eyesight. The mother does her best and responds by calling out to reassure her little one that she’s around. An infant who…
Category Healthcare
Fatima’s victory over Tuberculosis
A sudden bout of chest cramp and cough shook up little Fatima one midnight last year when the family was vacationing in their home town (Bihar). The frightened 12-year-old girl, trying to hide the pain from her elders, decided to…
A hearing aid restored his joy
During the summer of 2007, Narendra’s body temperature shot up all of a sudden. 10-year-old Narendra, a dweller of Asha’s Anna Nagar slum community, was immediately rushed to a nearby hospital. His fever kept on rising. Narendra was admitted into…
Let HIV not kill our hope!
Savita (name changed) got married in a joint family at a tender age of 16, in the year 1997. Soon they migrated to Delhi in search of better livelihood and to support their family back in UP. They settled in…
There is always another HOPE
“I had started thinking that I would never be able to become a mother,” said Manju, caressing her baby-bump. Having two consecutive miscarriages in the 8 years of marriage traumatized Manju for years. But with Asha standing by her side,…
Plastic-free Drive at Asha
We, at Asha, decided to conduct a one-week long campaign- Plastic is drastic at all Asha centres. Understanding the fatal consequences of using plastic consistently, Asha slums pledged to promote healthy and plastic free environment. The slums, already deprived and…
Free Health Camp at Kusumpur Pahari
The best gift you can give to your family is a healthy ‘you’! Asha organized a Free Health Camp for its slum dwellers at Kusumpur Pahari on September 14. Kusumpur Pahari is another beautiful and fascinating Asha slum community that…
Illuminating Kavita’s Unlit World
Life took violent turns when 26-year-old Kavita lost her eyesight. The poverty-stricken Kavita was married to a widower who lives in Mayapuri slum community with two daughters. During the first pregnancy, Kavita got completely bed-ridden due to the terrible weakness.…
Lakshmi’s newfound eyeglasses cleared her hazy vision
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…
“Asha helped protect my child”: Sabiha (a TB patient)
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…