About Asha D'Souza

This is how Asha is a Changemaker:
People here need employment. There are opportunities out there to grab as this town is attracting more and more tourists. We're getting people to work as a collective to offer accomodation in their homes to tourists as a way of generating income and giving them a glimpse of other cultures. At the same time, we're introducing sanitation that recycles water and nutrients both of which the soil here cries out for.

The place for which Asha feels a fondness or connection:
Orchha, on the banks of the Betwa river, in Central India, is now home to us. It has an old world charm - painted courtyards, low tiled roofs and decorative doorways line its narrow streets. The artistic outline of the palace, cenotaphs and temples etched against a clear blue sky are a constant reminder of its 16th century grandeur. But most of all what keeps us ticking are its smiling, friendly people.

The change Asha passionately wants to happen:
I want to see enough civic sense developing for the mounds of plastic waste and streams of waste water to disappear. I want women to play a greater role in decision-making particularly those who have been elected to public bodies. I want to see the youth constructively engaged in building a better tomorrow with less violence, less corruption, less dishonesty, less pushing others down to rise.