Dr. Neha Vakharia, during the Oasis camps, used to share her dreams of serving the poor of India and other third world countries. Mother Theresa was her ideal. After completing her studies, equipped by the lofty idealism of making life more meaningful by service to humanity, she joined a private hospital at Vadodara. But she felt some guilt pinching, the biting of conscience-that she was not doing the right thing by serving the rich when poor people were so under privileged. As part of some ‘crazy’ experiments facilitated by Oasis, she went to stay in slums for about 1 to 2 months to experience their living conditions. The experience in her words, “This exposure brought me closer to reality of millions of underprivileged people of our country. They would share with me from whatever food was in their home even if they were not sure about where the next meal would come from. I was astonished to see the greatness of their heart despite their poverty and felt ashamed of the poverty of my heart.” It was natural for Neha to leave her job. After getting married, she shifted to Bengluru where she promptly started health service centers in the slums around her area. While working on the illnesses, she realized that many of the ailments needed intervention in their earliest stages. Thus Oasis ASHA – Adolescent Students’ Health Alternative- was founded. Today, Neha and her core team of extremely talented and dedicated women friends are taking health classes as a year round supplementary course to hundreds of students in municipal schools. ‘ASHA of Oasis’ has spread to Ahmedabad in Gujarat and is dreaming to reach more and more children in different cities in the coming years. Swami Vivekananda’s philosophy has been lifelong inspiration for Neha-  “It is only with great fortune and immense grace of God that you have got the opportunity to serve the ignorant, diseased and suffering humanity. If you dedicate yourself completely in a selfless way, you realize the unlimited power within you.”