Wipro visits Asha
A team of 12 from Wipro visited Asha Kalkaji slum to celebrate the festival of Holi with the Bal Mandal (Children Association) on 6th March. The Asha team gave a very warm welcome to the Wipro team and introduced them…
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Asha made me believe in myself again: Arti
Have you ever noticed the people selling shoes on a footpath? That’s what my father and brother do, they sell shoes in the weekly markets in a different part of Delhi says Arti a 19-year-old. Arti’s family resides from Firozabad,…
Workshop on Defence Services held for Asha undergraduate students
A workshop on Defence services was held on 22nd February at the Asha headquarters. The workshop was conducted by Lieutenant commander Raja from the Indian Navy which was attended by 15 undergraduate Asha students who wants to pursue Defence as…
Workshop on Communication held at Asha’s Kalkaji slum community
The Macquarie team from Gurugram consisting of Smriti, Sachin, Kartik, and Rupesh conducted a workshop on Communications-Definition, meaning, needs and barriers at the Kalkaji centre for the Asha college students. 19 students from the Asha slums of Kalkaji, Tigri and…
Education opens doors for a bright future
Sweta resides in Indra Camp slum located in North-East Delhi. Her parents were migrants from Uttar Pradesh. As a child, her father Kanchan Lal was studious. However, due to poor financial conditions, at the age of 10, he started working…
Workshop on Banking held for Asha students
A workshop on Banking was held on 16th February at the Asha headquarters by Priyadarshini Choudhary, Assistant Manager, Canara Bank, a leading Public Sector Bank. This insightful seminar was attended by 14 undergraduate Asha students pursuing various courses at Delhi…
Team from River New York volunteer at Asha
“I extend the warmest of welcomes to John and Sara and the team from The Rivier in New York. They have been visiting Asha’s Jeevan Nagar community regularly since 2014. And Jeevan Nagar is cleaner, healthier, and much better educated…
A Mother’s fight against malnutrition
Born in Darbhanga, Bihar, to a family of farmers, Israt was born and brought up in her ancestral village in the 1980s. Deprived of education and basic needs from a young age, Israt and her siblings spent their childhood assisting…
Asha’s first beneficiary of the Sydney Scholars India Equity Scholarship
We wish Asha student Abhishek, the first beneficiary of the ‘Sydney Scholars India Equity Scholarship’ all the very best for his future as he beings to pursue ‘Master of Management’ at the prestigious University of Sydney.
With no one to call her own, Asha becomes her Family
Rambuli’s parents were immigrants who settled in Delhi in the early 1940s. They started working as mill labourers, earning just Rs.15 a month (US$0.21). This money was barely enough to feed this family of 16 and times were tough. Life…
Young Roshni’s journey in fighting TB
6-year-old Roshni, who lives near the railway line in Mayapuri slum community has shown her whole community the meaning of strength and determination. Roshni’s parents Ramchand and Komal hail from Uttar Pradesh. Ramchand who now works at a Mobile repairing…
A Family Planning Success Story
Amreen grew up in a protective household in Nangloi slum, West of Delhi during the early 1990s. Her father was a hardworking and strict parent who had a job as a truck driver carrying goods across the country. He made…