Diwali Winter Appeal

Post lockdown, the economy has restarted with painful slowness. During lockdown, with the immediacy of the need to feed the starving, all efforts were concentrated on just that. Now as we look around we are seeing labourers and their families not equipped to face the coming winter.

COVID relief work

Aasraa is indebted to you, our donors who have helped us, with such loving compassion, to feed the unemployed workforce of our city. You might also like Visit by Mr Ravi Kantamsetty from Save the Child Foundation August 2017 Toppers Felicitation 2017 August 2017 The Wind Beneath Our Wings June 2017 Back to all stories

‘Home’ is the New Workplace

For us at Aasraa it was again that time of the year, when we in the Education department were preparing ourselves for the coming new academic session. For us it was time for innovative thinking and the creation of study methods and programmes to keep aglow the fire of interest and keenness to learn in the minds of…

Street Smart Centers Affiliated as NRST Centers

A huge milestone in Aasraa’s journey! On August 10th 2018 we received our much-awaited MOU with the State Department of School Education. The MOU affiliates all our Street-Smart projects as the Non-Residential Special Training Centers under Samagra Shiksha Abhiyan (SSA) for the out of school children aged 6-14…

Education On The Move

In our quest to spread literacy, we have launched  MOBILE EDUCATION CARTS! The carts negotiate the tight gullies of the slums and allows us to reach and teach previously unreachable and unteachable children!!! Colourful, attractive and fun, children are drawn out of curiosity and into education!

Giving Our Children ‘Wings’

What does Aasraa strive for? The happiness and excitement that Laira holds on her face in her school uniform. Her house located in one of the city’s crowded slums does not provide a learning atmosphere to study. Her parents are not educated enough to help with her homework. Aasraa mainstreamed her into Sneha Doon…

New Computer Lab

Computer Aided Learning has allowed us to use modern teaching methodology in an attractive audio visual and interactive format. This has not just captured the imagination of the children, but increased their ability to retain knowledge through visualization. We are proud to start a new computer centre at one of our…