Education is the key through which one can liberate and achieve their goal and live a dignified life ahead. Aryan, a high school student from Washington, US instills the same concerns towards education going parallel with Asha. He came to…
“My father, a daily wage labourer, was working on the terrace of a building under construction. It was raining cats and dogs that whole day. My mother asked my father to not work over-time that day, but he did not…
“I have seen borrowers standing at our door aggressively knocking to barge in. I and my three younger siblings used to hide under the only bed, which was partially broken, we had, to keep us from them,” recalls Shivani. The…
Last month, a team including workers and volunteers in the education profession in Leicestershire and Rutland hiked up the Mount Snowdon to raise funds for ASHA. Snowdon is the highest mountain in Wales, the UK which is an elevation of…
“A so-called Doctor would put some dreaded drops in my eyes in a bid to help me. Confused, I would try to protest but in vain; as my mother would hush me. I used to cry sometimes afterwards while sitting…
Patriarchy instilled in the minds of our society grips hard and affects the growth of a woman. People who think it to be a long-gone concept are still living in delusion. Shabrunisha is a living example of one who has…
A slum dweller of Asha’s Seelampur slum community- Pooja has seen and heard stories of people dying to either the negligence by hospital staff or due to the inaccessibility of health centres in her village. “I was visiting my grandparents…
“Dr Kiran Martin, the founder and director of ASHA India, has given hope and wings to thousands and lakhs of people living in slum areas of New Delhi. More than 7 lakh people from 91 slums across Delhi benefit from…
“I still remember my Baba and Amma lifting tonnes of bricks on their shoulders every day from loaded trucks to the building sites near our village in Basti, Bihar. It took my father’s backbone before we migrated to Delhi in…
Every year, Asha students get an opportunity to intern at Embassies, High Commissions and Multinational companies. This year, four of the Asha students namely; Firoz, Vinny, Anjali and Mala interned at the British High Commission. In the four-week of their…
Sunaina grew up seeing her father scorching himself under a fiery sun while toiling in a rented farm. “Not even a single day passed that my father, a farmer, didn’t come home with calluses on his hands and severe back…
A native of Uttar Pradesh’s Pratapgarh, Archana migrated to Delhi some two decades ago. She was in her mother’s womb when the family decided to settle in Asha’s Mayapuri slum community. Archana was born under the guidance of Asha and…
