Asha Community Health Development Society

If you look for us in Jungpura B, we are up on the second floor of the B 20 building. It is a bit of a climb if the elevator is acting up again, which happens more often than we would like. New Delhi is always moving fast and our little corner of it is no different. The office is usually packed with boxes of supplies and stacks of folders that we haven't found a permanent home for yet. There are a handful of us working here, mostly squeezed into small desks. We spend a lot of time on the phone or talking to people who walk in off the street needing a bit of help with health stuff. It is not quiet here. There is always someone typing or a door opening. We have been in this spot for a while now, and the walls could probably use a fresh coat of paint, but we are too busy to get around to it. The tea lady comes by in the morning and that is usually the highlight of the day for most of us. We try to keep things organized but with so many community projects going on at once, it gets messy fast. It is just real work done by real people who are tired at the end of the shift. We do not have fancy brochures or anything, just our notebooks and the goal of getting through the daily list of tasks.