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Milan 2023 : AID Fundraiser DINNER
Theme: Women Farmers, Safe Foods, Livable Planet
WHEN: Sat, November 4, 2023 (5pm)
WHERE: Payson Park Church, 365 Belmont Street, Belmont, MA 02478
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Small holder women farmers are at the forefront of producing Safe Food, creating safe communities and a liveable planet. We invite you to join for AID Boston annual fundraising dinner, Milan, and interact with Seema Kulkarni who works with women farmers in India at 5pm on Nov 4th at Payson Park Church. Seema coordinates the gender and rural livelihoods activities for the Society for Promoting Participative Eco-system Management (SOPPECOM). She has written about water, equity, gender and rural livelihoods and teaches courses in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She facilitates the Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch or Forum for Women farmers rights (MAKAAM) and a number of women’s organizations in Maharashtra.
Come hear about the impactful programs AID has initiated with its partners aimed at mitigating effects of Climate Change and building resilience in communities at the grassroots in India.
WHEN: Sat, November 4, 2023 (5pm)
WHERE: Payson Park Church, 365 Belmont Street, Belmont, MA 02478
RSVP To the Event
Small holder women farmers are at the forefront of producing Safe Food, creating safe communities and a liveable planet. We invite you to join for AID Boston annual fundraising dinner, Milan, and interact with Seema Kulkarni who works with women farmers in India at 5pm on Nov 4th at Payson Park Church. Seema coordinates the gender and rural livelihoods activities for the Society for Promoting Participative Eco-system Management (SOPPECOM). She has written about water, equity, gender and rural livelihoods and teaches courses in Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai and Savitribai Phule University, Pune. She facilitates the Mahila Kisan Adhikar Manch or Forum for Women farmers rights (MAKAAM) and a number of women’s organizations in Maharashtra.
Come hear about the impactful programs AID has initiated with its partners aimed at mitigating effects of Climate Change and building resilience in communities at the grassroots in India.
2023: TeamAIDAsha Running Program
Run a half or full marathon and raise funds for a great cause
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TeamAIDAsha is a beginner-friendly marathon/half-marathon training and fundraising program jointly organized by the volunteers from Boston/MIT chapters of Association for India's Development (AID) and Asha for Education.
This year, we are training runners for their running a half or full marathon races and runners raise donations for AID and Asha. Both beginner and experienced runners are welcome. |
Milan 2022 : AID Fundraiser Luncheon
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Just like the pandemic, the Climate Crisis is affecting every single human life on this planet. Your support and participation is critical in creating a better world. We will share details about the impactful programs AID has initiated with its partners, aimed at mitigating effects of Climate Change and building resilience in communities at the last mile in India.
Join us for an interactive afternoon learning about the work and how you could deepen the impact with your time and financial support. WHEN: Sun, Oct 28, 2022(12-3.00pm) WHERE: Nara Park, Picnic Pavilion, 25 Ledge Rock Way, Acton, MA 01720 |
Milan 2021 : AID Fundraiser Luncheon
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Join AID Boston chapter for an interactive, outdoor luncheon at Milan 2021!
Theme: Addressing extreme inequalities due to the pandemic and climate change with vulnerable segments in India WHEN: Sun, Oct 31, 2021(12-2.00pm) WHERE: Nara Park, Picnic Pavilion, 25 Ledge Rock Way, Acton, MA 01720 |
Virtual Milan 2020
Annual Fundraiser Event
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At our annual fundraising virtual gala, we hope to showcase our work as we explore the theme of environmental justice and pandemic response through the work done by AID. Your support makes a huge difference in the lives of marginalized communities in India. Learn more: https://aidevents.org Help us spread the word: Facebook Event |
Fundraiser: Cyclone Amphan Appeal
Please support our work for the affected communities.
Cyclone Amphan Appeal
The Sunderban region in lower Bengal coast was hit with an extremely severe cyclone Amphan on May 20, 2020, resulting in breaching of embankments and widespread flooding. Sundarbans, the world’s largest active delta, is home to more than 5 million people (in India), many of whom are subsistence farmers and fisherfolk.
AID started working intensively with farmers in the region in 2009 after Cyclone Aila devastated Sunderbans exactly 11 years ago. We need your support to stand by the people of Sunderbans, who are already dealing with loss of income due to the COVID related lockdown.
Follow us for updates from the ground at: aidindia.org/responding-to-amphan
Please help AID support Amphan + COVID-19 relief and rehabilitation efforts at this time.
Outside India: https://aidindia.org/donate/amphan-relief
In India: https://aidindia.in/donate.php (mention Amphan in comments)
Facebook Fundraiser: https://www.facebook.com/donate/246465416672833
The Sunderban region in lower Bengal coast was hit with an extremely severe cyclone Amphan on May 20, 2020, resulting in breaching of embankments and widespread flooding. Sundarbans, the world’s largest active delta, is home to more than 5 million people (in India), many of whom are subsistence farmers and fisherfolk.
AID started working intensively with farmers in the region in 2009 after Cyclone Aila devastated Sunderbans exactly 11 years ago. We need your support to stand by the people of Sunderbans, who are already dealing with loss of income due to the COVID related lockdown.
Follow us for updates from the ground at: aidindia.org/responding-to-amphan
Please help AID support Amphan + COVID-19 relief and rehabilitation efforts at this time.
Outside India: https://aidindia.org/donate/amphan-relief
In India: https://aidindia.in/donate.php (mention Amphan in comments)
Facebook Fundraiser: https://www.facebook.com/donate/246465416672833
Fundraiser: AID COVID-19 Pandemic Appeal
Please support our work at the last mile
AID COVID-19 Pandemic Support in India
AID has disbursed over $300,000 so far providing food supplies, awareness material and protective gear for people under lockdown in India. Thank you everyone who has generously donated towards this relief effort.
The need is much greater. Please consider contributing to or share this link with people who can help: https://aidindia.org/donate/covid-relief-fund/
We will be sharing updates from volunteers on the ground. Please follow our page or read more at:
https://aidindia.org/responding-to-coronavirus/
AID has disbursed over $300,000 so far providing food supplies, awareness material and protective gear for people under lockdown in India. Thank you everyone who has generously donated towards this relief effort.
The need is much greater. Please consider contributing to or share this link with people who can help: https://aidindia.org/donate/covid-relief-fund/
We will be sharing updates from volunteers on the ground. Please follow our page or read more at:
https://aidindia.org/responding-to-coronavirus/
Past Fundraiser: Milan 2019
Annual AID Boston & Metrowest Fundraising Dinner
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Are you concerned about the way climate change is impacting the most vulnerable segments of society, but don't know what to do? Are you interested in hearing directly from grassroots changemakers on what a community-led response to climate change looks like? Join Association for India's Development (AID) for an evening of engaging talks from grassroots leaders and most importantly, actionable ways for both your dollars and time to make a positive impact in India. Important info to know about this fundraising event:
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Past Fundraiser: TeamAIDAsha
Train to run a half or a full marathon - ongoing 2019 program registration
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TeamAIDAsha is a beginner-friendly marathon/half-marathon training and fundraising program jointly organized by the volunteers from Boston/MIT chapters of Association for India's Development (AID) and Asha for Education. We train runners for their full or half marathon races and runners raise donations for AID and Asha. Both beginner and experienced runners are welcome.
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Past Fundraiser: Boston Milan 2018
Annual Fundraising Dinner: Sept 16, 2018 (5-8pm) at Belmont Beech Center
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At our annual fundraising Milan dinner on Sept 16 (5 - 8pm) at Belmont Beech Center, we connect with friends and supporters who, through the years have joined our efforts in promoting people-centric sustainable grassroots developmental work in the areas of agriculture, education, health, women's empowerment, environment and social justice in India.
Meet our keynote speaker, Shweta Narayan, a researcher and an environmental justice activist based in Chennai, Tamil Nadu who coordinates the Community Environmental Monitoring (CEM) program that works for a cleaner environment, uses scientific methods to provide advice and support to pollution-impacted communities across India. Join us for a sumptuous Indian dinner, interact with Shweta and our volunteers and learn how your support can make a difference! RSVP here: goo.gl/Nwsq6T Facebook Event: Get Latest Updates |
Past Fundraiser: TeamAIDAsha
Train to run a half or a full marathon
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TeamAIDAsha is a beginner-friendly marathon/half-marathon training and fundraising program jointly organized by the volunteers from Boston/MIT chapters of Association for India's Development (AID) and Asha for Education. We train runners for their full or half marathon races and runners raise donations for AID and Asha. Both beginner and experienced runners are welcome.
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Past Fundraisers - 2018
Fundraiser: Leher presents 90's ki Yaadein
Jun 2, 2018 (4-7pm) | Cary Memorial Hall, Lexington, MA
2023 Events
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In commemorating the 77th year of Independence of India, we have an AID table at the IAGB Independence day event.
WHEN: Sat, Aug 19, 2023 (2-6.30pm) WHERE: 47 David G Mugar Way, Boston, MA 02108 Note: Please take mass transit to the event. |
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WHEN: Sun, Aug 6, 2023 (3-6pm)
WHERE: Robbins Farm Park, 61 Eastern Ave, Arlington, MA 02476 RSVP: www.aidevents.org Facebook Event: www.facebook.com/events/2041782396213519 The event is open and free for all. |
2022 Events
About Prita Jha:
Prita Jha is a legal activist, researcher and trainer who has been engaging with issues of access to Justice for survivors of “unconstitutional violence “in various capacities in India over the last fifteen years. She is the founder and President of Peace and Equality cell (PEC). Peace and Equality Cell provides free legal representation survivors of child sexual abuse. PEC has made very effective intervention on the issue of poor state of women’s shelters in Gujarat by filing a Public Interest Litigation (PIL). This has led to a new set of rules being notified for all Shelters in Gujarat. Most recently PEC has started building its team and collective capacity on the Rights of Persons with Disability Act 2016. Additionally, in collaboration with two NGOs Samvet and Samegra Seva, PEC provided provide covid relief measures and promote vaccination in five districts of Bihar. Last but by no means least, Prita’s dream to work on access to Justice for survivors of child sexual abuse in Bihar, where she originates from, is slowly taking shape. Prita is the co-editor and co-author of two different books with Professor Surabhi Chopra and Advocate Warisha Farasat. Both books examine the Indian state’s record and response fulfilling its obligations to provide justice and reparation to victims across different episodes of mass violence. Prita has also taught courses on Gender and law, Criminal justice Administration and RTI and “NGOs and Civil Society “at Nirma University, Gujarat. Prita has published articles on Open Democracy on various aspects of implementation of the Domestic Violence and Child Sexual Abuse legislation in India. During the COVID lockdown she appeared on various webinars addressing the shadow pandemic of violence against women and children. Prita’s conversations with Karla Bookman, founder-editor of the influential cultural magazine, Swaddle, have proved popular with social media audiences. Website: www.peaceandequalitycell.org |
Join Association for India's Development for an afternoon with eminent activist and scholars Prita Jha and Urmitapa Dutta to discuss the critical work they do on building communities of resistance, and access to justice. When: Saturday, June 4 at 2 PM (doors open at 1:30 PM) Where: Cambridge Public Library Lecture Hall, 449 Broadway, Cambridge, MA 02138 Parking: Underground parking with access from Broadway; Also accessible by Mass transit. The event is open and free for all. Please wear masks to the event for covid considerations. Help us spread the word: Facebook Event About Urmitapa Dutta:
Urmitapa Dutta is an Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Grounded in Global South feminist decolonial praxis, her work seeks to understand and disrupt normalized everyday violence (direct, structural, and symbolic) across the spaces she is rooted in, and those that she transgresses. Working transnationally, she uses critical qualitative methodologies to interrogate the linkages between epistemic violence and myriad forms of domination codified by (settler) colonial modes of knowledge production. Urmitapa approaches decolonial praxis as a powerful mode of centering lived realities and voices of communities at the margins of national and global imaginaries. Her community-engaged activist scholarship (re)centers Global South and majority world peoples as epistemic subjects or knowledge producers. She engages in collaborative research, teaching, community action, and multivocal writing from relationally rooted places that contend with complex relationships to hegemonic power. Through this work, she seeks to denaturalize oppressive conditions and articulate experiences and knowledges silenced by officially sanctioned narratives. Urmitapa’s decolonial praxis is profoundly shaped by her experiences growing up in the Northeastern borderlands of India, amidst contested politics of citizenship and belonging. She is currently working in solidarity with Miya people in Northeast India to theorize “from below” and (co)create communities of resistance against coloniality and state violence. She is the 2020 recipient of the Distinguished Early Career Contributions in Qualitative Inquiry Award (Quantitative & Qualitative Psychology Division, APA) and the 2021 recipient of the Outstanding Educator Award from the Society for Community Research and Action (APA). Websites: www.urmitapadutta.com www.miyacommunityresearchcollective.org |
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Join us for the TAA 2022 Online Information Session on Sunday, 3pm ET on April 10, 2022
Please provide the details below to receive the link to join the information session: https://bit.ly/3M8cbab TeamAIDAsha (TAA) is a beginner-friendly marathon/half-marathon training and fundraising program jointly organized by the volunteers from Boston/MIT chapters of Association for India's Development (AID) and Asha for Education. We help you train for a Full or a Half Marathon race while you raise donations for AID and Asha. Both beginner and experienced runners are welcome! Who can join? • Anyone from a couch potato to an experienced runner • Anyone looking for a challenging activity this summer • Anyone looking to make a difference in the world Why join the TAA program? • Train with a group to achieve your Marathon goal • Detailed training plan, special clinics along with personal guidance from a certified coach • Water support and assistance from veteran alumni and volunteers during long runs • Guidance, specialized clinic and mentoring for fundraising from team of alumni runners • Target races: Marine Corps Marathon, Washington DC, Baystate Half Marathon, Lowell, MA? • TeamAIDAsha t-shirt • Social outings and new life-time friendships with your cohort team members and volunteers • Know that you are helping make a positive impact in the lives of so many in India For more Information : http://www.teamaidasha.org E-mail us at: [email protected] |
2021 Events
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Put on your thinking caps because we've got your Saturday planned! Join AID Boston in their second virtual TRIVIA NIGHT! A FREE EVENT hosted by the one and only Ben Banyas in order to raise funds that will support AID Boston's work in their climate change efforts. Make a team or come individually. Newcomers and long-time trivia enthusiasts all welcome! Hope to see you there! Register here: http://www.tinyurl.com/aid-trivia-night - Details will be emailed to you post-registration Donate Generously! AID website: https://www.aidboston.org/donate.html Help us spread the word: Facebook Event |
2019 Events
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Sept 17, 2019 (6.45pm - MIT, 4-370)
Screening of "Ho Gayi Hai Pir Parvat Si: The Mountains Agonized" - A documentary film on the devastating impacts of hydropower projects in the Himalayan State of Himachal Pradesh, India Followed by Q&A with Director Subrat Kumar Sahu. CoSponsored by: People's Climate Network and Coalition for Democratic India Facebook Event |
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Across the country, people are rising up to protest against certain kinds of ‘development’ — for example,farmers are mobilizing against the bullet train, and indigenous people are fighting against the opening up of forests for mines and dams.
What is desperately needed at this moment is a manifesto for the protection of the commons and open lands, and for the re-creation of economies that derive value out of healing wounded landscapes and covering open lands with diverse vegetation, water and life. For this, we need to defer to the Constitution and ensure that those who are challenging ‘development’ projects like the bullet train can speak without fear. Facebook Event |
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TeamAIDAsha
Run a half/full marathon and raise funds for AID Boston and Asha as you train this summer and run a fall marathon. Info Session for 2019 Session: April 7, 2019 (2-4pm) : MIT, Bld 4, 370: Please RSVP for the event. TeamAIDAsha website : Get all the details RSVP and register: TAA Meetup Facebook Page: Get Latest Updates |
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Aruna Roy is an Indian social activist known for her efforts to fight corruption and promote government transparency. Initially an officer in the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), Aruna joined the Social Work and Research Centre, a rural-development organization in Tilonia, Rajasthan and in 1990, moved to Devdungri, Rajasthan to form the Workers and Peasants Strength Union (Mazdoor Kisan Shakti Sangathan; MKSS). MKSS is an organization devoted to empowering workers and peasants, specifically through their right of access to information. Cosponsored Event by: Program in Women’s & Gender Studies at MIT The Alliance for a Secular and Democratic South Asia Facebook Event |
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Past 2018 Events
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Jun 26, 2018
Gender and identity, along with other intersectionalities, define how we navigate through the world. From community-led advocacy, to navigating employment, healthcare, immigration and a society that has been confined within binaries, come hear the stories of Sumi Das, Benji Bombay and janhavi in discussion with moderator, Apphia K. They will collectively share their experiences around their current challenges, community and self empowerment, intersectionality and resilience in the work they do in their respective communities. Facebook Event |
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Jun 2, 2018
Chennaiah Poguri is National Secretary of the Andhra Pradesh Agricultural Laborers and Informal Sector Workers Union (APVVU) a large trade union federation in South India. Mr. Poguri has been active in organizing and advocacy for social security provisions of informal workers and is the Honorary President of the National Center for Labour, an apex body of unorganized workers in India. He also serves as a member of the National Advisory Group of the National Alliance of People's Movements. He has been involved in alliance formation of international peasant movements and is currently the Chair Person of the Asian Peasant Coalition. APVVU is a federation of 428 mandal level trade unions of rural informal workers particularly from agriculture, fishing, forest; rural artisans, sharecroppers, marginal farmers, construction workers & shepherds. The unions are spread over in 14 districts of Andhra & Telangana states. It has membership of 592,850 & 56% is drawn from the women agricultural workers. Majority of rural workers come from the background of Dalits and Adivasis, the union has developed unique way to work from caste, class, gender and ecological justice perspectives. www.apvvu.org The talk will provide a history of land reform in pre and post independence India, work of APVVU in challenging semi-fuedal agrarian relationships in South India, and discuss the current juncture of agrarian change and challenges and movements of agrarian/informal/precarious workers who make up 93% of the Indian workforce. Facebook Event |
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May 22, 2018
AID Boston MetroWest and Boston chapter invites you to a talk by Dr Ravishankar, the founder and CEO of Chudar. Chudar is a new initiative to improve the quality of education for elementary and high-school children from underprivileged backgrounds. Their goal is to ensure that every child passes out of high-school with the requisite knowledge, skills and confidence to face the future, both in school and beyond. Chudar is a Tamil word which denotes the sparkle or brilliance from a flame, and we hope this effort will enable each child to shine in their own way. For more information on Chudar and the work that Dr Ravishankar has been involved in, please visit: http://chudar.org/, http://chudar.org/?page_id=708 Facebook Event |
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April 20, 2018
AID Boston was part of a larger coalition to say no to gender based violence and protest against Kathua and Unnao in Harvard square. Facebook Event |
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Feb 26, 2017
Dr. Ramanjaneyulu is a well known pioneer in promoting sustainable agricultural practices in India. He is the founder and director for the Centre for Sustainable Agriculture (CSA), Hyderabad. CSA is a resource organization engaged in establishing models of sustainable agriculture working in partnership with Governments, NGOS and Community Based Organizations by scaling up the successes of Non-Pesticidal Management and Organic farming. CSA works in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Maharashtra, Punjab, Tripura, Sikkim with more than 50000 farmers directly.. Facebook Event |
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