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 India Support
 City Life supports the work of ASHA in the slums of Jeevan Nagar, New Delhi, both financially and through sending out teams of volunteers. The mission of ASHA is the improvement of the lives of slum dwellers in Delhi through community and health development. They believe it is not enough simply to provide medical care; the only way to bring about real lasting improvements to these communities is through a holistic approach to community health.
This approach has led to the development and support of empowerment and self-help schemes directed at the slum dwellers, particularly the women and children. Through the empowerment and mobilisation of the slum communities they find the motivation to develop their own environment when previously they felt hopeless without prospect of a better future.
Volunteers work with ASHA to empower and encourage those in Jeevan Nagar showing God’s love through a mixture of children’s work: games, craft, teaching, songs, etc and some renovation work to bring the ASHA run slum centres up to a usable standard. Funds are regularly sent out to support the ongoing work and have so far funded English classes, a computer suite and teacher and the sponsorship of slum children wanting to go into higher education.
To find out more about ASHA and their work across the slums of New Delhi you can visit their website here.
New links have been made with the Eternal Joy Home for Orphans in Hyderabad and with friends in Calcutta who are connected with a number of charitable projects in the area.
If you would like more information on the teams that go out each year, or would like to join one of the trips yourself please contact Dan Pooley (danp@citylife.org.uk).
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