A letter from Ana
In the end, you come to leave but never go back home as the same person that left, I mean never. What I have here, I can never find in any other place and I know this even before I leave.
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Assessment season at Aasraa
Assessment for mainstreaming has started at our ‘Street Smart’ program this week. Almost 60 students have appeared for their tests that will determine their learning levels and readiness for school in the next academic session. Currently, there are almost 500 children enrolled in the Street Smart project. While…
Aasraa: Homing the Homeless
Aasraa Trust is an organization dedicated to nurturing and preserving the very vital resources of any nation: children. Aasraa seeks to provide opportunity, education, nutrition and medical attention to the kids of our streets and slums in and around Dehradun. More than that, Aasraa provides these often- forsaken,…
Exam fever!
Exams are approaching and as much as we support extracurricular activity and talk about the overall development of a child, we simply cannot ignore this necessary evil.
1st batch of NIOS students pass class 3!
Paramjeet, 18, joined Aasraa’s Street Smart program as a spirited, naughty 13 year old excited to study. He would come to our learning centre everyday after rag-picking in the mornings. This week he got his result card for passing third grade through NIOS! He has never been to a formal school and lives in a one…
Aasraa Trust celebrates India’s 67th Republic Day in the slum community of Govindgarh
India celebrated her 67th Republic Day on 26th January 2016. Joining the nation in the celebration was Aasraa Trust with over 200 children, teachers and slum community members of the Govindgarh area in Dehradun. Govindgarh is the heart of the ‘basti’ community where our street & slum children reside.
Anouska’s time in Aasraa
I never had many expectations about Aasraa Trust before I came here. I just knew it was a charity which was based in Dehradun which helps out under-privileged children. So what I was about to discover and see was completely indescribable.
Chhatt at Bindal
Image unavailable in the archive Image unavailable in the archive Image unavailable in the archive I have crossed the Bindal bridge a million times but never during a festival. What does a celebration under the bridge look like? We decided to go down the small bumpy hill to see Bindal during Chhatt celebrations ( festival … Read more
Kaveri’s Week of Discovery
It was summer vacation in my school and I had to come to Dehradun, from my hometown of Boston in the United States to visit my grandparents and family. My grandparents had helped to build a shelter for homeless people in Dehradun called Rein Basera. In the mornings, they had a program at the shelter called Street…
