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…
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.…
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…
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…
80-year-old Shakuntala, who once was well settled in Punjab is now surviving at the mercy of her neighbours. She resides with her only son at Peeragarhi, Asha’s slum community. She does not keep well and soon she started losing her…
For Sapna, exercise and balanced diet is key to good diabetes control during pregnancy. “I am pricked twice every day with insulin shots”-she says. To reach Sapna’s shanty one must walk along a dirty and open drain for a few…
“I never thought that a little pain and fever can turn out to be so dangerous. Since last month, I have not been able to go out to work. I am diagnosed with TB again after eleven years.” Mohd. Saif.…
Twenty-three years old Satish lives with his five-member family in Kusumpur slum colony. His father, a daily wage labourer struggles hard every day as a labourer to fend for his wife and four children, never sure of his next day…
A free eye camp was organized by the very generous, Dr. Jatinder Bhalla, Eye Surgeon, and his team from Deen Dayal Upadhyay Hospital on 21st of April. Dr. Bhalla is a part of Asha’s referral system, wherein the critical patients…
Sushma, a young mother of two daughters from Trilokpuri slum community works as a helper at different houses to support the family. Her husband, an alcoholic is often out of work, that forced Sushma to work till last months of…
