School seems a long way away…

Catching insects for a living instead of the school bus

• A mere 63% of Indians are literate

• Only 43% of Indian Women have primary education

AID and Education

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

“We love to read stories too” -Srikakulam Library Project, AP

The Railway platform is my school..-Platform School Project, Orissa

“How many words can a floppy hold?”-Computer literacy with AID Jeevan Saathis

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

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

• Infant Mortality Rate in India: 63 deaths / 1000 births –

• Compare that with 6 deaths /1000 births in USA

AID and Health Care

Health Check-ups at Appalagraharam-AID Internship Program

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

Low cost centrifuge for testing Anemia

Health care Research Center

Research on Multi-drug Resistant TB

A lifetime bending

All is not as well as can be …

To this day, many women in India face:

• Dowry Deaths

• Sexual abuse

• Social Inequalities

• Domestic Violence

AID and Women

Women - at the core of the village health training sessions

18 women saving Rs.10/week:- Village Micro credit programs

Anti- Dowry Awareness Campaigns-AID Women Group Initiative

At the mercy of “Mother” Nature

Gujarat Earthquake Orissa Cyclones

During years of low rainfall, ~130 million people in over 70,000 villages are at risk

Seasonal Floods Devastate Millions of Lives Each Year

13 more villages are submerged due to

Dam Displacement

AID and Disaster Relief

Temporary shelter houses -Earthquake Relief Projects, Kutch, Gujarat

Mobile Health Camps -Earthquake Relief Projects, Kutch, Gujarat

Children of Bilgaon pitching in

-Microhydel Project, Maharashtra

Dec. 3, 1984 – the Night of Death…

Union Carbide, Bhopal after the Gas Leak

16,000 breathed their last

19 Years LaterFor 120,000 people

The Darkness still remains

AID and “Sangharsh”

Fight for justice:

Satinath Sarangi, Rashida Bi, Champa Devi outside DOW HQ

One day at a time …

One TRIUMPH at a time …

After confrontation with DOW CEO Parker -- AID Michigan

Returning toxic waste to DOW

AID

and

“Technology for the Masses”

I am capable of generating power for my own needs!

-Pedal Power Project

I can do it too!

-Pedal power generator project

Organic farming AID-GRASS Project, AP

• Programs in women's development, health, education, publication and income generation.

100 Blocks=6000 villages=Millions of poorest people directly impacted

• 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

The message from the grassroots

is one of Hope….

Of courage …

Of Optimism …

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….