About The Founder

Mrs. , Shaila Brijnath

The founder of Aasraa, Shaila Brijnath, is an ex-investment banker who left her lucrative job in the US and began working at the Latika Roy foundation. This foundation works for children with disabilities in Uttarakhand. It was here that Shaila met Neha Joshi, who is now a consultant for the Aasraa trust.

Summary

Aasraa Trust was established as a social work trust focusing on education of underprivileged children in 2009, in response to a crisis for intervention for the welfare of children from the riverbed slum under the Bindal bridge. Aasraa then worked with the river bed community to promote the need for education and started an after school project to augment school education.

Project Street Smart was started on the pavements of Astley Hall in 2011 with a group of 5 street children. The objective was to keep the children off the streets and provide them with basic literacy through art, craft, music and audio visual medium.

Today, Aasraa works towards empowering street and slum children through education, vocational training, nutrition, medical care and providing shlter homes. Our mission is to level the playing field for children who have neither seen books nor stepped into a school. The children we work with come from extremely impoverished backgrounds and are mostly rag pickers, beggars, addicts, runaways and orphans. We work with more than 3351 children. Show More

Awards & Recognition

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