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Every gift you make helps Asha India bring healthcare, education and empowerment to families living in India’s slums.

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Donations over $2 to the Australian Friends of Asha for Slums Overseas Development Gift and Relief Fund are tax deductible

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Where your donation goes

Australian Friends of Asha is the Australian branch of Asha India, the charitable organisation created by Dr. Kiran Martin in 1988. Asha works with people residing in slums in India, benefiting more than 700,000 people from over 91 slums through healthcare, education and economic empowerment programmes.

Contributions made to the Australian Friends of Asha for Slums Overseas Development Gift and Relief Fund are tax deductible for amounts over $2, and they are directed to the work of Asha Community Health and Development Society in New Delhi. Monthly donors provide lifesaving emergency care delivered every day of the year.

Asha Community Health and Development Society — Ekta Vihar Sector 6, RK Puram, New Delhi 110022, India.

Telephone: 0091-11-26170618 · 0091-11-26196857 · 0091-11-26716409 · Fax: 0091-11-26179844

Every gift you make helps Asha India bring healthcare, education and empowerment to families living in India's slums. Support from Australian friends of Asha slums directly assists volunteer teams working alongside community members, so that children receive the essentials they need to survive and thrive. Donations help fund learning materials, medical outreach and everyday support that families in the settlements can build on. Whether you give once or regularly, your contribution joins a wider circle of people who believe that small, sustained acts of kindness can change the futures of children who have known nothing else.

Living in the slums of India means that many children lack the bare necessities of clean water, nutrition, schooling and basic healthcare. Asha India works with the people who live in these communities, supporting children and families through health camps, education projects and empowerment initiatives that are shaped by local knowledge. Australian friends of Asha slums exists to help carry this work further, connecting donors here with the grassroots effort already under way. Giving today helps place resources where they are needed most, in the hands of those who know each street and each family by name.

Donating is a simple way to stand with children in India's slums and with the communities that care for them. Your gift contributes to practical, long-term support: healthcare, education and empowerment for families who are often overlooked. There is also satisfaction in knowing that funds reach work designed with and by the communities themselves, rather than being spent without direction. Every contribution, however small, adds to a collective effort that continues through festivals such as Diwali, through fundraising events held across Australia, and through year-round campaigns. Join with others in the Australian friends community and help children receive the essentials they need to survive.

Ways to give

Choose how you give

Give online

Make a one-off or monthly gift through our secure online donation form, or use the Donate Online Now button on this page.

Give monthly

Monthly donors provide lifesaving emergency care delivered every day of the year to children who could not survive without it.

Give another way

For information about bank transfers, workplace giving or fundraising with your community, contact us and we will help you arrange it.

Donation details

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Donations over $2 to the Australian Friends of Asha for Slums Overseas Development Gift and Relief Fund are tax deductible. Receipts are issued for recorded gifts.

Ready to complete your gift? Use the Donate Online Now button above to open our online donation page.

At a glance

Your support in numbers

About the work your gift supports
DetailFigure
People benefiting from Asha’s workMore than 700,000
Slums covered by programmesOver 91
Tax-deductible donation thresholdOver $2
Emergency care delivered by monthly donorsEvery day of the year

For background on the organisation and its founder, visit Asha India. Field stories and updates are published under News.