Supporting Chapters: Philadelphia, Seattle, Morgantown

Amount: Rs. 794640

The aim of the project is Saving neonates and mothers in urban slums near Nagpur. Currently, 18 Arogyasakhis (health workers) help close to 50000 people. They check the weight of the new born within 24 hours of its birth and guide the mother about breast-feeding, the required vaccination and recommended food etc. using illustrative flash cards.
 

Supporting Chapter: Dallas

Amount: Rs. 225000

Society For The Education Of The Crippled reaches out to more than 700 physically challenged students and adults every year in Kanhe Phate, Pune District.

Supporting Chapter: Portland

Amount: Rs.175000

Mann Deshi project targets 196 villages in the district of Satara, Hubli and Dharwad in the states of Maharashtra and Karnataka. Their work reaches to around 1000 individuals (deshi women entrepreneurs) in more than 100 households per village.

Sep 27, 2011.  AID is happy to continue its collaboration with the people of Surodi Village and Vigyan Vahini in Ahmednagar District of Maharashtra.  After successfully building watershed structures a few years ago and restoring ground and surface waters, Surodi village has moved from drought to prosperity.  Last year they built a Science centre.  This year AID-Boise continues the several years of successful collaboration in Surodi by supporting the  construction of a library.    

Surodi Story with Pictures  | Done: Suordi Watershed work

You can help support the library for the children of Surodi village by making a donation to AID-Boise.

Surodi was once a drought-prone village in Maharashtra.  It has been transformed to an agriculturally prosperous one, thanks to the watershed development work done over 5 years with AID support in collaboration with Vigyan Vahini (Mobile Science Lab).  Now Ashok Rupner and the village people of Surodi have sought AID's help in constructing a Science Activity Centre.  Surodi has a school up to Class 4 and what's more, due to the passion of the teachers and inspired by work of Vigyan Vahini, the children of this small village have made their mark in Maharshtra. 

 In the science fair the 4th std children came 1st in block level.  Then at Taluka level competition they came first again.  Then at district level where there are children upto class 7 competing in the group, the Class 4 Surodi children came first again.  And at state level were there were only 2 agegroups of all school children of all ages, the Surodi kids came 4th!!    
  Donate to AID-Boise chapter that has pledged to support the Surodi Science Activity centre. Total support requested: About Rs 3.2 lakhs (~ $6700).  We aim to finish construction before monsoons.   Past Watershed work that transformed Surodi village   

NGO : VMT (Venu Madhuri Trust)
Location: Kolhapur, Maharashtra
Budget: $ 5850

AID recommended a training program for the villagers. So, villagers were sent to AFARM, a watershed training center & villagers completed training in watershed work in May 2005 and they are carrying on the watershed work for Ramanwadi from 2006.

NGO: VMT (Venu Madhuri Trust)
Location: Kolhapur,Maharashtra  
Chapter: Dallas

This project will help installation of 75 Gobargas units and 150 fuel efficient wood stoves for families in the village, that will be manufactured locally after a scientific training to a local person.

NGO: GLSM
Location: Karjat, Maharashtra
Chapter: Boston

Gramin Lok Seva Mandal (GLSM) is a Gandhian organization based in Karjat, Maharashtra. They run a home for hearing impaired (also speech impaired) and mentally challenged children from surrounding adivasi villages.

NGO: Chetna Vikas
Location: Vidarbha, Maharashtra
Budget: Rs 240000

Chetana Vikas works with people residing in villages at a micro level, and facilitates participation of rural people in the process of development of rural India. Chetana Vikas has an outreach of about 200 villages in the Wardha District of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra. At a macro level, it functions as a resource Centre for sustainable development groups, action fronts, activists, and policy making agencies in India, and abroad. Its focus areas are agriculture and natural resource management, women's development and gender issues, education and child development.

Chapter: Pittsburgh
Location: Maharashtra

Of the 42 bunds in Surodi, 21 were constructed by the villagers over four years while the remaining were built by the government earlier and in need of repair or reconstruction; 27 are earthen and 15 are concrete/stone. The total spent on the construction of 18 new bunds, and the repair of 5 out of the total 22 pre-existing ones, was Rs. 2.65 lakhs or just over $6,000 this is equivalent to the average spent by the government to build just one bund. The Pittsburgh chapter of the Association for India's Development (A.I.D.) provided the majority of the funding for Surodi's watershed development program.

NGO Partner: SAMWAD
Location :  Ratnagiri, Maharashtra
Chapters :   Duke/RTP, NC
Budget:   $8752 (1 Year)

Geographic and climatic factors hamper access to medical facilities in several villages of the Chiplun taluk (Ratnagiri district, Maharshtra). To address this problem, the project aims to select a total of 20 women from 10 of these villages to serve as arogyasakhis (health workers) in their own villages. The primary function of arogyasakhis is to provide basic medical assistance for common ailments like cold, fever, diarrhea and RTA. They also provide referral services, spread awareness of preventive and promotive health, and address key issues like the right to health.

Many adivasi families whose agricultural lands have been submerged by the Sardar Sarovar dam, are facing starvation. Their children are malnourished. Their schools have gone under water.  The Jansahyog project aims to provide immediate relief to these affected families.

 Chapters: Bay Area, Boise & Portland 
Location: Washim, Maharashtra 

Phasepardhis, one of the wandering tribes of the Maharashtra region, have traditionally engaged in hunting as a means of livelihood. The Wildlife Protection Act of 1972, rendered this option illegal. Samvedana, an organization comprising Phasepardhi and Chitrakathi tribals, is working to help tribals earn a living in new ways. 
 

NGO: Chetna Vikas
Area of Focus: Agriculture
Location: Wardha
Chapters: San Diego
Budget: $8000

Chetana Vikas works with people residing in villages at a micro level, and facilitates participation of rural people in the process of development of rural India. Chetana Vikas has an outreach of about 200 villages in the Wardha District of the Vidarbha region in Maharashtra. At a macro level, it functions as a resource Centre for sustainable development groups, action fronts, activists, and policy making agencies in India, and abroad. Its focus areas are agriculture and natural resource management, women's development and gender issues, education and child development.