On the Morning Show on East Coast FM this week, Ella Wedderburn talked about her trip with us with ASHA to Mayapuri slum - you can listen by clicking here
Irish Friends of ASHA - Fundraising
We're raising funds to support ASHA - a charity working in the slums of Delhi. This blog aims to keep you up-to-date with our latest activities.
Thursday, February 27, 2014
Saturday, February 22, 2014
Some final images from our visit to Mayapuri slum in Delhi
Our time at the Mayapuri slum has come to an end. We could talk for many hours about our experiences there, but perhaps the most digestible way of passing on our story is to show a few photos with captions. To see any photo in more detail, just double click on it.
What have we learned? Perhaps the best way of summarising that is to list the ten ASHA values that underpin everything that this wonderful charity does:
- Gratitude
- Generosity
- Compassion
- Non-violence
- Simplicity
- Justice
- Empowerment
- Joy
- Dignity
- Optimism
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In front of the mural that we painted in the children's meeting room |
Amar, the computer teacher, ASHA staff Videa and Thresi,with Gwen Montgomery |
Ella with new friends |
Linzi with new friends |
Linzi with Deepak, an ASHA university student who was our translator for the week |
Rachel tying a friendship bracelet around a child's wrist |
A final gathering in the ASHA centre before we said goodbye |
Pete giving a presentation on rabies to Community Health Volunteers (CHVs) from two slums |
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Ella wants to bring her home |
One of the crafts sessions with the children |
Emma helping a younger one make a crown |
Decorating the centre with bunting that we'd brought out with us |
Fixing and updating ASHA's bank of online computers for their young people |
The CHV's made lunch for us on our last day |
Friday, February 21, 2014
The ASHA mother-and-baby clinic in the Mayapuri slum
The ASHA staff who run the mother-and-baby clinic in Mayapuri
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Thanks to ASHA, the Mayapuri babies are in good health |
Each baby is regularly weighed to keep their growth chart up to date |
After vaccinations, babies are sent home with a dose of anti-pyretic and a multivitamin tonic |
Babies often have dark eyeliner, created with khola |
Nobody likes having an injection |
Apprayma giving a BCG vaccination |
ASHA staff give health education classes to local women |
Flash cards are used to give clear messages to the mothers |
Thursday, February 20, 2014
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
Another day in Mayapuri slum
The Greystones team of niine volunteers are just back in from another busy day at the ASHA community centre in the Mayapuri slum..... the routine of painting in the mornings then engaging with the children in the afternoons continues..... the captions under each picture explain what's going on in each one.
Some of the Greystones volunteers - Linzi, Ella, Joanna, Rachel, Emma and Joyce - with ASHA children |
These school children are regular attendees of the ASHA after-school classes |
She's a non-ASHA girl who loves to dance... |
The express train travels at speed, just a few feet away from children playing |
The "main street" of the slum is right on the railway tracks |
This girl lives in a one room home with her family of six - she's proud of her school book |
Here's Joanna, with two new friends |
This lady had both her legs severed by the train when she was 8 years old |
This dog had one back leg severed by the train and somehow survived with no veterinary intervention. There must be many deaths of humans and animals caused by the proximity of the trains |
Pooja - one of ASHA's miracles |
Thick mud due to broken drains on the way into the slum |
Pete is carrying out a survey into street dogs and rabies while hes here |
The room painting is coming on well |
Meanwhile ASHA's community health work continues - this lady is having an antenatal blood pressure check |
ASHA's computer classroom is one of the rooms that we don't need to decorate - it already looks good |
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