Monthly Archives: July 2019

“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 a hope to make a better livelihood,” says Kamla with a hoarse voice. Kamla was…

Summer camp is the time when children do something creative. These camps are all about learning, making friends and having fun. But for the slum kids, such camps are a distant dream. Many do not even know what these camps are. The kids in the slum spend their summer vacation toiling around the slum, play…

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 pain,” recalls Sunaina. [caption id="attachment_4053" align="aligncenter" width="604"] Sunaina in front of her shanty near Asha's…

A native of a village in Uttar Pradesh (India), 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 gradually, joined Bal Mandal (Children’s Association). “Everybody at Asha centre knows me…