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Join us to celebrate and support ASHA for Women’s
21st Annual GALA!

Keynote Speaker: Geeta Patel, Ph.D
Chief Guest: Dr. Rohini Anand
Honorary Gala Chair and Master of Ceremonies: Sheela Murthy
An evening of Fine Dining, courtesy of SODEXO Corporation and fantastic raffle items.

Saturday, September 18th, 2010, at 6 p.m. Click here for more information.

Darshan TV features news segment on 20 years of ASHA for Women

View Darshan TV’s Aastha Verma interview ASHA for Women Board Member Rati Bishnoi on our organization’s work in the Washington-metro area across the last 20 years. Click here to see the interview.

ASHA in the news: Report calls for better access to services for domestic abuse victims

Watch SAALT Executive Director Deepa Iyer discuss research findings from Washington DeSi: South Asians in the Nation’s Capital and highlight the work of local community organizations serving the D.C. area, including ASHA for Women. Click here to watch the interview.

July 22, 2009–A new report on South Asians living in Washington, D.C. states that despite organizations like ASHA for Women “too many” domestic violence victims and survivors are still unable to access legal and social services because of a lack of awareness, immigration concerns, and linguistic and cultural barriers.

Washington DeSi: South Asians in the Nation’s Capital, released this week by ASHA partners South Asian Americans Leading Together and Asian Pacific American Legal Resource Center, calls gender-based violence a “silent, but important concern” within the South Asian community, and notes that organizations like ASHA are reporting an increase in the women seeking our services.

ASHA means “hope” in several South Asian languages.

ASHA for Women, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, dedicates its services to provide community-based, culturally-competent support to South Asian women and their children who have faced domestic violence in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area.

ASHA for Women was one of the first South Asian domestic violence organizations to be formed in the United States. Founded in 1989, it was created in response to the needs of South Asian women who face language, cultural, and social barriers, and fall through the cracks of the domestic violence service system.

The design of this website was made possible by a generous grant from the Washington Area Women’s Foundation.