Tender embraces filled with love are a way of life at Asha. They generate deep affection, immense trust, the strongest of bonds, they heal broken hearts, and change loveless, lonely and sad lives into lives filled with joy and peace.
This is Asha’s very first Nurse Practitioner Lily. Together we took care of sick patients in an open space next to a filthy, smelly large drain in 1988. She sees thousands of patients every year: children, expectant mothers, the elderly,…
It was a great day of excitement and learning for our Asha students and graduates when Mazars UK Partner, Tom Brichieri-Colombi and his three colleagues, Alan, Kanika and Bhaskar visited the Ambedkar Basti Slum community on 10th September. The Mazars…
Here’s an exciting scholarship and admissions letter from UQ to the first girl from the slums of India! Chris Elstoft @ Amitava: thank you for working so hard to make this happen.
Hello folks, yesterday I went to the slum community that had got flooded when I was in Australia. I was heartbroken to see the devastation, the ruin, the loss of whatever little they had, their desperation and their sorrow. The…
All these wonderful young people studying in Australian Universities were once upon a time like these kids in the pictures below. May we see each child with eyes of love, may we always be worthy of their trust, may we…
This is Asha’s first international student Mahinder (extreme left). His home in the slum was in front of a dirty smelly public toilet block. He grew up in great poverty. Today he works as a software engineer for Macquarie Bank…
Asha had the immense pleasure of hosting Vice-Chancellor and President Professor Mark Scott AO, the University of Sydney, along with Kristen Andrews, Vice President, External Engagement, and Himanshu Kohli, Senior Recruitment Advisor, North and East India, on 5th September 2022.…
Hi folks, most of you have met Dr Sharmila Lal, I think. She has been providing the finest of health care to Asha patients since 1990. Although she is an Obstetrician/ Gynecologist, she has been functioning as a General Practitioner…
This is Chandan. He lived in poverty all his life in an Asha slum community, his father picking up heavy boxes of copper wire from trucks, and manually transporting them into storage spaces. I remember meeting him when he was…
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…
Hello everyone, here’s a copy of a speech given by the Australian Federal Minister for Education Jason Clare,where he refers to Asha and to Tushar. It’s a long key note address, but the part relevant to Asha is as below.…
