Association For India's Development
MIT & Boston Chapters

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About Us

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 such as education, livelihoods, natural resources including land, water and energy, agriculture, health, women's empowerment and social justice.

Founded: 1991
Incorported: 2003
Chapters in the US: 36
# of Volunteers: ~1000
AID-India Chapters: 6
Total Projects: 365
Ongoing: ~100
Indian States with AID projects : 18
Projects Visited by AID volunteers: All

Donations to AID are tax-deductible in the USA. It is a registered 501(c)(3) non-profit charitable organization with tax ID 04-3652609.

Annual AID Reports

AID India Annual Report
AID Boston Annual Report [2006]

 
 

Our Mission

Compassion wherever there is suffering
Conviction that the compassion is strong enough to eliminate suffering
Courage to make this conviction a reality
This is AID...

Recently, these ideas have been given a substantial push forward with several of our volunteers returning to India and working with different NGOs and forming chapters and drawing more volunteers in India itself for this work.

History of AID

It was the early 1990's. Out of curiosity I went to a mela organized by some Indian groups . The theme was to tell slogans in front of the Capitol Building in Washington DC. "Kashmir is India, India is Kashmir.....India is for Peace" and so on. [Read More]

Thoughts on 10 years of AID by founder, Ravi Kuchimanchi [Read More]]

 
     
 
Association for India's Development - MIT & Boston Chapter
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