What is ASHA?

ASHA- Adolescent Students’ Health Alternative is a successful project module for helping/educating children-youths to adopt HEALTH HABITS over a period of time. Right now a group of more than 25 homemaker women turned volunteer health-teachers are taking ahead this project under the leadership of Dr. Neha Vakharia, Trustee Secretary of OASIS trust at Bangalore. The project is also flowering at Surat where 12 women volunteers are working passionately under the leadership of Dr. Ami Desai. They conduct Regular HEALTH CLASS in Corporation/Government aided schools adopted by OASIS. The response they have received is not only heart warming but also eye-opening. Children are rather eagerly waiting to be taught the right things. So far ASHA – Adolescent Students’ Health Alternative has reached to approx. 16 schools and 950 adolescents in Bangalore and 12 schools and 450 children in Surat.

ASHA is the health education project, started in 2004, by Dr Neha Vakharia, Trustee Secretary OASIS, to make significant difference in the health of underprivileged children. Today it aspires to be nationwide movement bringing more and more hope and health for the children of our nation. While today’s medical world is becoming more and more quick fix oriented, restricting only to physical sphere of health; ASHA hopes to provide preventive, holistic, long term and cost effective health solutions. ASHA sees its role as one of the catalyst, “Planting the seeds for better health” by working with government schools and community to reach more and more children where they live, learn and play. The goal is to impart long term changes by facilitating cultivation of good health habits that help the children to become healthier humans and citizens. Thus as the name suggests, it is a fundamental and effective alternative approach towards community and national health.