ASSOCIATION FOR INDIAS DEVELOPMENT INC
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Mission Statement
Association for India’s Development is a volunteer movement promoting sustainable, equitable and just development. AID supports grassroots organizations in India and initiates efforts in various interconnected spheres of education, livelihoods, environmental justice, agriculture, health, women’s empowerment and in a framework of social justice.
About This Cause
AID is a volunteer-based 501(c)3 non-profit organization established in Maryland in 1991. It works with socially and economically vulnerable communities across India in interconnected focus areas such as education, health, environment, women's empowerment, livelihood, disaster relief to promote sustainable and equitable development. AID does not endorse or support any political party or electoral campaign in any country. Thirty years ago, AID started supporting non-governmental organizations (NGOs) working in under-served areas. Some of these NGOs ran schools or health camps, dug wells, or trained youth in vocational skills. Adapting some of their effective practices, AID initiated efforts in other needy villages, in the process getting to know the priorities of people living in poverty. Starting with a simple idea that problems are interconnected, so must be the solutions, AID grew as people came together to be part of the solution. Its holistic vision enables it to address underlying causes rather than just responding to symptoms, by using powerful tools for bringing out change such as campaigns in addition to constructive and creative work through various projects. When AID asked why the wells were dry, why the poor were hungry, or why they spent more on illness than the non-poor did, it found injustice behind every answer. By judiciously combining development models with campaigns for rights and information, AID ensures communities are left more empowered through its work. Today AID has more than 30 chapters across the US. Highly educated AID volunteers from US have returned back to India to work full-time on various causes such as education, agriculture, fighting corruption and human rights. AID works in diverse and critical developmental areas such as providing farmers with sustainable eco-friendly models and highlighting gaps in India's farming policies, assisting rural and urban communities fight corruption through legal education, working with tribal communities that are being displaced as India opens up their lands for commercial gains, long term disaster relief and improving the quality of education in public schools. Its work directly benefits approximately 600,000 people from all parts of the country including 115,000 people through healthcare programs and 50,000 farmers through its sustainable agriculture programs, and reaches several millions indirectly. Its education program reaches out to children of diverse backgrounds including slum dwelling, tribal and landless communities, and was adopted as a model for State education programs in Tamil Nadu. It has more than 20 years of experience in regional and nationwide disaster relief work with costs ranging from a few thousand to more than two million dollars. Its work in the 2004 Asian Tsunami relief garnered praise from several donor agencies. It has consistently been rated a 4-star charity organization for its efficiency and transparency by Charity Navigator, the premium rating agency of non-profit organizations in the US.