Last Saturday was filled with inspiration and motivation as 30 of the Asha Alumni met after many months to assess the ways to pay it forward in their slum communities. Laughter and joy permeated the air as they shared fond…
Yesterday, His Excellency Alexander Ellis, the British High Commissioner to India visited Asha’s Mayapuri Slum Community as part of the UK’s Coronation Big Help Out initiative. After King Charles III’s Coronation in London on Saturday and Coronation Concert in Windsor…
Monis, a 13-year-old boy from Chanderpuri has a special talent. He can express himself beautifully through the art of painting. However, being part of a large family of eight members living in small one room shanty at Chanderpuri slum is…
Asha’s long-term partner, Macquarie Global Services, organized an employee volunteering workshop yesterday for the children at the Asha Centre in Ambedkar Basti Slum Community. The team member team: Ms Gagandeep Kaur, Jyotish Ghosal and Sagorika Chakroborty, conducted an interactive educational…
“Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.” –Helen Keller. Meet Sana, a brave and determined seventeen-year-old girl from the Chanderpuri slum colony in Delhi.…
In the midst of the bustling Tigri Slum, there is a heart-wrenching story of a 65-year-old woman named Ram Pyari. Ram Pyari, a native of a small village in Etawah District, UP, came to Delhi after her marriage. Her husband…
The story of Karan Kumar, a 19-year-old from the Anna Nagar slum community, reminds us to have a passion for chasing our dreams and using the opportunities to achieve them. Karan has been associated with Asha as an active Bal…
Here’s a beautiful story. Asha International Student Tushar who is studying for his Masters at Sydney University, has just been awarded the most prestigious scholarship for academic achievement at his residential college, St Paul’s. He decided to donate his entire…
Dear friends, Today, we seek your urgent support to reach out to the much-sorrowed slum community in Yamuna Riverbed, East Delhi. They were recovering from the recent flood crisis when their homes were demolished a few days ago; a bulldozer…
As a father, I felt proud when I heard that my son Suman had secured a seat at Delhi University for his higher studies; I was overwhelmed with joy and satisfaction. Being the first family member to go to college,…
On 10th March 2023, Pawan Gupta, Divisional Director and Head of Operations, Macquarie Gurugram, visited Asha’s Kalkaji centre. After the formal welcome, he was briefed on Asha’s Higher Education Programme before interacting with the undergraduate students. He intently listened to…
Gyanmati is a 35-year-old woman living in the Kusumpur Pahari slum community in Delhi with her husband, an auto-rickshaw driver and their three children. Gyanmati’s life took a turn when she started experiencing frequent and debilitating periods in 2021, which…
