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What we do:

                We are a voluntary non-profit organization which started in 1991. Our focus since then has been in tackling the problems faced in rural India. We believe that problems such as illiteracy, unemployment, lack of health care, etc are all interconnected, and should be tackled in an interconnected manner. AID believes in an holistic approach and supports projects in literacy, rural development, women's empowerment, Health care, Vocational training, environment, etc....
                We invite or obtain project proposals from India, review them in detail at our weekly meetings, communicate with them, very often visit the project site, check the credibility of the organization and then provide them financial and non-monetary assistance.

Salient Features:
              1. All of AID's work in the U.S. is done by unpaid volunteers. All the donations are used in the most efficient manner towards AID's mission.
              2. We monitor our projects regularly through volunteer visits to India and through AID volunteers in India. We also insist on regular feedback to ensure that we know of the progress of the project.
              3. AID is developing a strong volunteer base in India. Many of our dedicated volunteers have returned to India to work fulltime for AID.
              4. We have started implementing our long term plan of Seed Villages and Focus Villages to establish holistic development efforts in different centers in India.

This has been a brief introduction to AID. Please visit the rest of our web page and feel free to get back to us if you have questions or want to know more about contributing to our efforts. Please also visit the main aid home page www.aidindia.org.
 
With regards,
                    AID-Chapel Hill

AID - Philosophy, Vision and History behind the Action
The problems of poverty, illiteracy, unemployment, sanitation, over-population, religious intolerence, social inequalities and corruption reinforce each other. One problem leads to the other and feeds on another. Therefore the solutions to these problems have to be interconnected, just like the problems themselves.
            Ths interconnected nature of the problem does not stop with the poor people - it affects all of us. Our inability to tackle these problems, to take the initiative, to trust and work with others and to overcome our shyness and fear, is as much a part of this web of problems and has to be tackled along with the other problems.
AID Approach
               Plumb the DEPTH of the problems:
               · By simultaneously tackling all the interconnected problems through projects in education, health care, family planning, vocational training, women's empowerment, children's welfare and rural development.

               Cover the BREADTH of the country:
               · By doing projects all over India.
               · Activate the potential in all people to solve these problems.
               · By inspiring people everywhere to join this movement and motivating them to contribute in all possible ways - money, time, ideas and talent.

               Holistic Development : Seed Villages
               · Start first seed village project in 1999.
               · Achieve 100% literacy, 100% employment, complete health care and zero population growth in the seed village.
               · Use the strength and experience gained to spread the movement radially to surrounding villages.
               · Start about four such seed villages in different regions of India by the year 2000.

AID Strategy
Starting seed villages all over India.
       While focusing on the seed villages keep doing individual projects all over India.
 
Immediate Goals
               Starting the first Seed Village by 1999.
               Doing projects in all major states of India by 1999.