“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…
“We would sit on the pavement outside and wait for amma (mother) to give us dry chapatis soaked in water,” recalls a teary-eyed Mehjabeen. The family of Mehjabeen, daughter of a daily wage mason Mohammad Raees migrated to Janta Camp…
We at Asha would like to extend our gratitude to Australian High Commission New Delhi, for taking nine Asha students on board for the four-week summer internship this year. These students were given the departments based on their interests and…
As health is one of the major concerns across our Asha slum communities, we were delighted to have a student of Medicine- Jeremy Grenadier from the School of Medicine Greenville- the University of South Carolina, United States of America this…
We were delighted to have twenty-six students of Bachelor’s in Education (B. Ed) from Lady Irwin College to intern at Asha. Having a specialized background of teaching, these girls got the opportunity to work with children of various age groups.…
