I am Mary, a 67-year-old woman living in the Kanak Durga slum colony. I came to Delhi with my husband long back, seeking a better life. Unfortunately, my husband passed away 15 years ago, leaving me alone with my small…
Meet Ritu, a young girl from Sawada Ghevra, a neighbourhood in northwest Delhi. His father is a daily wage labourer, and her mother is a homemaker who takes care of all household duties. Ritu’s family has been living in poverty…
Shanti, a fifty-year-old woman from Up, has been living in Ekta Vihar slum community for thirty-five years. Married at 10, she and her husband moved from Gorakhpur to Delhi for a better life. When her husband faced a mental health…
Mansi, an 18-year-old from the Swada Ghevra slum in Delhi, faced immense challenges when her father, the family’s sole breadwinner, fell ill with kidney stones. Amid financial struggles and her father’s hospitalization, Mansi’s determination to break the cycle of poverty…
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Here is an excerpt from the speech by the Hon Jason Clare MP Minister for Education delivered during the Australian International Education Conference at Adelaide on Wednesday, 11 October 2023, where Asha’s work has been highlighted. Please click the link…
Meet Sana, Masoom, and Maqsood, three determined siblings from a wire-stripping family in the Seelampur slum who are determined to change their lives!Originally from Bihar, their family’s journey to Delhi was marked by many struggles. In the face of financial…
Majeed, a seventy-eight-year-old man from Seelampur slum community left helpless and alone after his wife’s passing and abandoned by his sons, found solace in Asha’s ‘Love and Lunch’ program.Initially isolated and depressed, he was convinced by Asha’s CHV, Praveen, to…
18-year-old Veenita lives in the Mayapuri slum community with her family. Veenita’s parents had migrated to Delhi from UP for better opportunities. Her father, a graduate, could not get any permanent job. After struggling with odd jobs, her father started…
Khalid Ahmad is a 65-year-old resident of the Seelampur Slum Community for the past 35 years. He was infected with pulmonary TB, and currently, he is a COPD patient for many years. Due to the financial burden of a large…
Here is a wonderful story of an Asha student Kajal who lives in a one room shanty in a slum in the Kalkaji neighborhood. Her father was diagnosed with kidney disease and this drove the family into destitution since the…
Renju (name changed), a 27-year-old mother of three children from the Ambedkar Basti slum community, faces different health challenges in her family.Her asthmatic condition and the burden of looking after her locomotor-disabled five-year-old daughter amidst her husband’s battle with TB…
