Who are the people AshaKiran is targeting?
(Back to top) Thus far, we have been working with four slums around IIIT wherein approximately 100 kids and over 250 adults reside. However, we hope to double the numbers by the end of the year, money and manpower permitting. The people, currently with us, are mostly migrant labourers who came to Hyderabad from their villages, seeking jobs. We have observed that about 75 percent of these slum dwellers, many of whom work as construction workers, have been living in these slums for close to two years, despite being migrant labourers. About the kids, around 30 percent go to government schools in the vicinity. Majority of the remaining kids used to go to school in their villages and had to discontinue when they moved to Hyderabad.
