Category Archives: Asha Students

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 since she was a young child. Her parents had to relocate to Sawada Ghevra, which…

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 instability, their parents started stripping electric cables, a hazardous labour, which can cause many…

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 working as a part-time construction worker, earning about 84 USD a month, insufficient to meet…

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 kids were young and he was the only bread earner in the family. They began…