Here’s the story of High School Asha student Farman written by my colleague Amitava. Thank you to Steve and to the members of Reservoir for your commitment to the Asha family in Chanderpuri. You might remember Farman through your visits…
Hello folks, the class 12 high school results are out! I was rather anxious because the National school leaving exams were canceled. The government decided to use the grades students got in class 10 and 11 and the internal assessments…
Dr Louise Dolan is a senior Consultant in Rheumatology in the UK. She has been a friend of Asha for many years, and has been to Asha on a number of occasions. I have the best news ever! She just…
Hello folks, Asha student Tushar begins his Masters in International Relations from University of Sydney ( online from India for now) on August 2nd. He will need our support and good wishes as he begins his journey. And there’s some…
Hello friends, yesterday as I was running my clinic on Zoom, I suddenly heard that Asha university student Sugra (whose English teacher is Asha USA Trustee Jean Peteet) was lying in bed quite sick. I called for her to come…
Hello friends, Macquarie Group initiated a virtual Community Internship Program for our students, thanks to high speed internet in many of our communities. To give you an idea, some of the areas of learning cover – business overview – banking…
Friends of Asha-Australia organized a zoom webinar to host Dr Kiran Martin and Asha graduate Usha on 6th July, 2021. Here is a video where Asha graduate Usha shared first-hand accounts from slum residents during the webinar and detailed the…
Hi everyone, I’ve been encouraging all locally elected representatives to be invited to visit the Asha communities. These relationships are critical to the living conditions and needs of slum residents. Here is a Municipal Councillor, elected rep of a large…
Our wonderfully brave, passionate and competent nurses and paramedics gathered to celebrate how they saved hundreds of lives during this second wave. We salute them all for their loving and dedicated service to the poor. They roamed every lane and…
Asha graduate Shiv from Seelampur Asha community completes his First Year of Masters in Social Work with good grades! We celebrate his success together. He did it in the English medium that was really hard for him. However, the guidance,…
Hi folks, I visited Kusumpur today. The team and Warriors gave me a warm welcome. I was so happy to see the IT Lab functioning, with our university students using it for college assignments, projects and research. The students were…
When a vaccination drive began in CR das school located in Seelampur, North East Delhi, our Asha team member Shiv went there to speak to the person in charge of running the vaccination centre. Shiv met with him in person…
