Ashirwad Sewa Kendra Trust

I've always found that word...'merit', extremely ambiguous. Who gets to decide what is excellent, or good, or worth mentioning or like here... worth saving? Who gets to rate the calibre or quality of something or as in this story...someone's life? It was work as usual for us.  We were returning to Dungarda village, last Sunday night (~9:00PM), after completing some work at the ASK Trust Office at Valsad, when crossing through the Chikhli By-pass, we suddenly noticed something

It was the evening of the first day of January 2019, when we first heard about him. A young relative of a staff on campus, had slept off around a fire in front of his home, wearing a jacket. The Church services for auspiciously entering the new year had just gotten over, and the family had assembled round the fire for some fun and laughter. One-by-one, as the night crept on, slept off around the fire. This was the norm, on cold winter nights in the villages here. However, fo

As the country celebrates 72 years of independence, our ASK English Medium School at Dungarda was not far behind in getting into the...

Every time, before the monsoons arrive, the country and the media have grand discussions of how this year the agriculture, the motorways, and in general, life in itself, would fare in the rains. In our small campus in Dungarda too, talks along the same vein emerge, with the same or even more intensity - of how our small (but long, nearly 750 meters from the main road) country-road to the campus would turn into a murky mire, of how the banks would softly cave in, making the ro