a journey through the grassroots aid – spanning india through projects: bridging the two worlds...
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A Journey Through the Grassroots
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AID – Spanning India Through Projects: Bridging the Two Worlds
Chapters across USA Projects in India
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School seems a distant dream
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• A mere 63% of Indians are literate
• 46% drop-out of school between grades one and five
• Only 43% of Indian Women have primary education
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AID and Education
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The School Goes to the Children -Mobile School Project, Pune
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“I have stories to read now” - Srikakulam Library Project, AP
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The Railway platform is my school..
- Ruchika Platform Schools, Orissa
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Experiments can be done with throw-away materials
- Jagriti School, in Lodhar (near IIT Kanpur)
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“Maybe not early, but earnestly to school”- Vocational training programs, Gujarat
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But What if I am Not Strong Enough to Go to School?
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• Infant Mortality Rate in India: 63 deaths per 1000 births –
• Compare that with 6 deaths per 1000 births in USA
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AID and Health Care
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Health Check-ups at Appalagraharam- AID Internship Program
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Dispensing low cost medicines -Village Outreach Clinic, Ganiyari, Chattisgarh
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Leading a Medical Revolution- Health Camps by Swanirvar, West Bengal
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Low cost centrifuge for testing Anemia
Health Care Research Center- Jan Sahyog Samiti, Chhattisgarh
Research on Multi-drug Resistant TB
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Women’s Health Remains a Neglected Issue in the
Indian Society …
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Training Traditional Birth Attendants- Association for Services to Rural India,
Maharashtra
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To this day, many women in India face:
• Dowry Deaths
• Sexual abuse
• Social Inequalities
• Domestic Violence
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AID and Women
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Women - at the core of the village health training sessions
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18 women saving Rs.20/week = Financial Independence
- Village Micro-credit Enterprises
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AID and
“Struggle for Justice”
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Dec. 3, 1984 – the Night of Death…
Union Carbide, Bhopal after the Gas Leak
16,000 breathed their last
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20 Years LaterFor 120,000 people
The Darkness still remains
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Fight for justice:
Satinath Sarangi, Rashida Bi, Champa Devi outside DOW HQ
One day at a time …
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“Mother” Nature Also Brings Disaster to our Homes
Gujarat Earthquake Orissa Cyclones
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Every year 130 million people in over 70,000 villages face starvation
due to severe drought
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Seasonal Floods Devastate Millions of Lives Each Year
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AID and Disaster Relief
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Temporary shelter houses - Earthquake Relief Projects, Kutch, Gujarat
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Mobile Health Camps - Earthquake Relief Projects, Kutch, Gujarat
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Floods can be Man-Made Too …13 more villages are submerged due to
Dam Displacement
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AID
and
“Technology for the Masses”
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Where Big Dams Fail, Local Initiative Brings Electricity–Bilgaon Micro-Hydel Power Project
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I am capable of generating power for my own needs!
-Pedal Power Project
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I can do it too!
- Pedal power generator project
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Organic farming AID-GRASS Project, AP
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One TRIUMPH at a Time for AID
The India-Pakistan Peace Initiative by AID Receives Recognition from Congress Member Sheila Jackson
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Bhopal Activists Win the Goldman Prize – the Nobel Prize in
Environment
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With Bhopalis – in solidarity
3032 people from all over the world sign the petition that forced the
government of India to order clean-up of the Bhopal area –
Justice Prevails …
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Recognition from the US Community
AID has received a 4-star rating by Charity
Navigator, America’s largest independent
evaluator of charities.
AID has also been ranked #2 among 10 of
the Best Charities
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• Relationship is one of partnership
AID and the people …
• Listening to the people and what they
want – the solutions lie within them• Developing sustainable and repeatable development models with local flavor
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The message from the grassroots
is one of Hope….
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Of courage …
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Of Optimism …
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Compassion whenever there is suffering…
Conviction that the compassion is strong enough to eliminate suffering…
Courage to make this conviction a reality..
THIS is AID….