Dr. Kiran had the opportunity to meet with Katherine Olston, Director of the Centre for English Teaching, and Ward Lee, Deputy Director of Operations, to discuss the possibilities of providing Asha prospective international students with academic English learning prior to…
Dr. Kiran had the honor of meeting an eminent Australian personality, Mr. Maurice Newman AC. He has served in a range of public roles, including as Chairperson of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, chair of the board of the Australian Stock…
Message from Tushar Joshi, Asha student- ‘Dr. Kiran was taken for a tour of St Paul’s College, reputed to be one of the finest residential colleges in Australia. What a great privilege it has been for me to be living…
Message from Tushar Joshi, Asha Student doing Masters of International Relation at the University of Sydney – ‘It was a great pleasure for the University of Sydney to host Dr. Kiran Martin, Founder Director of Asha, on Aug 22. She…
It was a crisis when the water from the river Yamuna entered one of the Asha slum communities on the river bed. Asha immediately sprang into action and provided grocery bags, biscuits, bedsheets and towels to all the affected families.…
Dr Kathy Jenkins, a pediatric cardiologist from Harvard Medical School and Raina Cohen, an undergraduate from Harvard, paid a visit to Asha. After a brief orientation at the Head Office and viewing the photo exhibition, the visitors were taken to…
It was a wonderful and blessed moment for everyone in the Asha slum at Zakhira when Dr Kiran paid a visit to the community. The Asha team and the community members warmly welcomed her as she met the children, women,…
We are looking for the poor and the suffering in every corner of our communities, and serving them with great tenderness and compassion. May we bring healing to their heartaches, their broken spirits, their sad and lonely lives. May the…
Independence Day was celebrated in Asha Slum communities. Local Municipal Councilors and MLAs were the honoured guests. May we experience national pride and be devoted to uplifting the poor and the forgotten all our lives
My name is Sitaram. I am 78 years old. I have been living in Mayapuri slum for over 50 years. All my 4 children have turned their backs on me and never come to ask about how I am doing.…
My name is Shanti and I am 80 years old. I am from a Dalit untouchable caste and all my life I have been cleaning toilets and picking up garbage from peoples’ homes. I have always been shunned and humiliated…
This is a narration from a 65 year old Dalit woman called Ramwati. Dalits in India are also known as untouchables. They are caste out from society and in the villages, they are only allowed to clean toilets. Ramwati says…
