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A Journey Through the Grassroots

A Journey Through the Grassroots. Chapters across USA. Projects in India. AID – Spanning India Through Projects: Bridging the Two Worlds. School seems a distant dream. A mere 63% of Indians are literate 46% drop-out of school between grades one and five

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A Journey Through the Grassroots

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  1. A Journey Through the Grassroots

  2. Chapters across USA Projects in India AID – Spanning India Through Projects: Bridging the Two Worlds

  3. School seems a distant dream

  4. 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

  5. AID and Education

  6. The School Goes to the Children -Mobile School Project, Pune

  7. “I have stories to read now” - Srikakulam Library Project, AP

  8. The Railway platform is my school.. - Ruchika Platform Schools, Orissa

  9. Experiments can be done with throw-away materials- Jagriti School, in Lodhar (near IIT Kanpur)

  10. “Maybe not early, but earnestly to school” - Vocational training programs, Gujarat

  11. But What if I am Not Strong Enough to Go to School?

  12. Infant Mortality Rate in India: 63 deaths per 1000 births – • Compare that with 6 deaths per 1000 births in USA

  13. AID and Health Care

  14. Health Check-ups at Appalagraharam - AID Internship Program

  15. Dispensing low cost medicines -Village Outreach Clinic, Ganiyari, Chattisgarh

  16. Leading a Medical Revolution- Health Camps by Swanirvar, West Bengal

  17. Low cost centrifuge for testing Anemia Research on Multi-drug Resistant TB Health Care Research Center- Jan Sahyog Samiti, Chhattisgarh

  18. Women’s Health Remains a Neglected Issue in the Indian Society …

  19. Training Traditional Birth Attendants- Association for Services to Rural India, Maharashtra

  20. To this day, many women in India face: • Dowry Deaths • Sexual abuse • Domestic Violence • Social Inequalities

  21. AID and Women

  22. Women - at the core of the village health training sessions

  23. 18 women saving Rs.20/week = Financial Independence- Village Micro-credit Enterprises

  24. AID and • “Struggle for Justice”

  25. Dec. 3, 1984 – the Night of Death… 16,000 breathed their last Union Carbide, Bhopal after the Gas Leak

  26. 20 Years Later For 120,000 people The Darkness still remains

  27. Fight for justice: One day at a time … Satinath Sarangi, Rashida Bi, Champa Devi outside DOW HQ

  28. “Mother” Nature Also Brings Disaster to our Homes Gujarat Earthquake Orissa Cyclones

  29. Every year 130 million people in over 70,000 villages face starvationdue to severe drought

  30. Seasonal Floods Devastate Millions of Lives Each Year

  31. AID and Disaster Relief

  32. Temporary shelter houses - Earthquake Relief Projects, Kutch, Gujarat

  33. Mobile Health Camps - Earthquake Relief Projects, Kutch, Gujarat

  34. Floods can be Man-Made Too …13 more villages are submerged due to Dam Displacement

  35. AID • and • “Technology for the Masses”

  36. Where Big Dams Fail, Local Initiative Brings Electricity–Bilgaon Micro-Hydel Power Project

  37. I am capable of generating power for my own needs! -Pedal Power Project

  38. I can do it too! - Pedal power generator project

  39. Organic farming AID-GRASS Project, AP

  40. The India-Pakistan Peace Initiative by AID Receives Recognition from Congress Member Sheila Jackson One TRIUMPH at a Time for AID

  41. Bhopal Activists Win the Goldman Prize – the Nobel Prize in Environment

  42. 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 … With Bhopalis – in solidarity

  43. 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 Recognition from the US Community

  44. AID and the people … • Relationship is one of partnership • Listening to the people and what they want – the solutions lie within them • Developing sustainable and repeatable • development models with local flavor

  45. The message from the grassroots is one of Hope….

  46. Of courage …

  47. Of Optimism …

  48. 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….

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