AID NYC

03/26/2020

Millions are in danger as COVID-19 has begun to impact India. In the lockdown period people living in slums and villages face hunger arising from loss of wage and lack of resources to stock food supplies. Please donate generously to AID’s COVID Relief Fund that helps mitigate and provide relief for the coronavirus affected underprivileged communities of India. To donate by credit card please use the form below. Please send checks payable to AID to 5011 Tecumseh Street, College Park, MD 20740. Thank you for supporting in this time of grave need. AID is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Our federal tax-ID is 04-3652609. All donations are tax-deductible.

AID-India volunteers identify and support needy families facing lockdown.

10/01/2019

We are grateful to all our supporters for making Milan a successful event for the 9th year! Through Milan, we are able to share the impact of the work and challenges faced by our NGO partners and strengthen our relationship with sustained supporters of AID in the DC Metro area. We thank you for choosing to spend September 28th with AID and hope you enjoyed connecting with volunteers and like-minded donors and the inspiring talk by Jayaram Venkatesan. Here is a video of his talk - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orfY1EdWDyc&feature=youtu.be

We thank everyone for their generous contribution towards supporting AID's community-based projects in India. As our volunteer Surekha said at the event, we do not take your support for granted and look forward to earning it every year.

08/20/2019

how sustainable agriculture helped a community rebuild after a disaster

08/15/2019

https://arcg.is/0iXr9v

D(r)ying Rivers of India. Take a virtual tour across India to see how once mighty rivers are becoming like intermittent streams which run dry during parts of the year and are in flood at other times, due to a combination of factors.

08/15/2019

Water Gives us Life

08/11/2019

Freedom From Thirst: Tour of how AID is working with communities across India to reverse water crisis

06/24/2019

Guest lecture by Ruchira Gupta

Viji Shamanna Swati Sawant Vikram Mulchandani Somnath Mukherji Tapojyoti Das

06/24/2019

Guest lecture by Ruchira Gupta, founder of Apne Aap. The organization works for anti s*x trafficking in India.

In Apne Aap, she has helped more than 20,000 girls, women, and their family members exit prostitution systems. She testified to the US Senate for the passage of the first US Trafficking Victim Protection Act and has led survivors after the 16 Dec bus r**e for a new Indian anti-trafficking law. She advocated for the creation of the Trafficking Fund for Survivors at the United Nations by addressing the UN General Assembly and taking survivors to speak there and to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva. She has won an Emmy, the Clinton Global Citizen award, the UN NGO CSW Woman of Distinction of Award and the highest French civilian distinction, Chevalier de l’Ordre National du Mérite (Knight of the National Order of Merit). She has edited two anthologies-River of Flesh & Other Stories: The Prostituted Woman in Indian Short Fiction and As If Women Matter: The Essential Gloria Steinem Readerand is the editor of a SAGE-published bi-annual journal, Antyajaa: Indian Journal of Women and Social Change. Her work is being archived in Stanford Library. Her dream is to create a world in which no human being is bought or sold.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TfC_ef_Rgmo

Viji Shamanna Swati Sawant Vikram Mulchandani @ Somnath Mukherji Tapojyoti Das