Aashray Abhiyan News

सर्दी आने वाली है। इसका सबसे पहला असर उन लोगों पर पड़ता है जो फुटपाथ पर, पुल के नीचे और रेलवे स्टेशन के बाहर सोते हैं। साथ ही उन मेहनतकश लोगों पर भी, जो सड़क पर काम करके अपनी रोज़ी कमाते हैं। इन्हीं लोगों की बातें लेकर हमारी निदेशक सिस्टर डोरोथी फर्नांडिस और हमारे साथी सुदर्शन पटना नगर निगम के आयुक्त श्री यशपाल मीणा से मिले। यह मुलाकात कम समय की सूचना पर दोपहर के आसपास हुई। हम आयुक्त महोदय के आभारी हैं कि उन्होंने हमारे लिए समय निकाला। उनकी बातें सुनकर हमें उम्मीद भी मिली है।

It's October Already! With winter approaching, the most vulnerable people in Patna are the ones who will feel it first: those who sleep on pavements, under flyovers and outside railway stations, and the workers who earn their living on the street. Their concerns were at the centre of a meeting our Director, Sister Dorothy Fernandes, and our colleague Sudarshan had with the Commissioner of the Patna Municipal Corporation (PMC), Mr. Yashpal Meena. The meeting was arranged at s

On October 2, 2026, we at Aashray Abhiyan proudly celebrated the 157th birth anniversary of Mahatma Gandhi. To honour this day, we hosted a special gathering at Gandhi Maidan, a historic public square right here in Patna, India. For us, the most beautiful part of the day was the community who joined in. Our audience was primarily made up of women from local slums and hardworking people from the working classes. They gathered in front of Gandhi’s life-size statue to offer flow

Twenty two years of campaigning for “inclusive cities” – has helped us as an organization to get very near to the people in Patna who live in mostly subhuman conditions. With a new government in place and new bureaucrats, the entire process begins anew. To my utter surprise, I was quite taken aback when I went to meet the newly appointed Principal Secretary of the urban and housing department of the government of Bihar. He simply didn’t want to acknowledge the previous s