Recent articles about AID in the media ...

• "...decide to try the last address... AID India. How I wish I had gone there first ... AID is providing relief to the very remote coastal villages that few have reached ." -- Manjeet Kriplani, chief of BusinessWeek's India Bureau [more]
• "Serving the nation Cometh the hour, cometh the man. U.S.-educated engineers like Balaji Sampath, and their calling in development work in their homeland." -- Sudhish Kamath, The Hindu [more]
• Are NRIs Non-Returning Indians? -- Chidanand Rajghatta, Times of India. "Swades is inspired in part by a Maryland-based Association of India's Development (AID) effort that saw two of their 'jeevansaathis' - Aravinda Pillalamarri and Ravi Kuchimanchi... work on micro-hydel project in Bilgaon. Director Ashutosh Gowariker visited their project and acknowledges them in the credits." [more]
• "AID believes that all of India's big problems -- poverty, illiteracy, unemployment et al -- are inter-linked. ......This holistic approach has spawned the idea of seed villages... --- Madhuri Baldwa Bhat, Education Times of India
• More articles about AID

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Latest Press Releases

• AID Participates in Historic Peace March from India to Pakistan, March 23rd 2005
• Protest at the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C. against the Indian Patents Amendment, February 27th 2005
• AID begins relief efforts in Tsunami hit area. Appeals for contributions towards relief and rehabilitation, December 30th 2004
• AID Plans to raise $101,000 through online giving campaign, Dec 06th 2004
• AID to "Swades"
• More AID press releases

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Awards/Recognition for AID

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• In 1997, AID received the International History Week Humanitarian Leadership Award. [more]
• AID is one of the highest rated charities (4-star rating) by Charity Navigator.[more]
• In 2003 AID was felicitated at the Vishwasetu Conference

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A.I.D in the media

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AID has been featured in various newspapers/magazines/Online Portals.

• VIEWPOINT: Dow now responsible for Bhopal, Daily Texan, December 07th 2004 [more]
• Student vigil commemorates 20th anniversary of disaster. Group pushes for awareness of Bhopal, India chemical leak, Idsnews.com, December 07th 2004 [more]
• In Vellore, a greening of the hills, The Hindu, December 14th 2004 [more]
• Are NRIs Non-Returning Indians? Times of India, December 19th 2004 [more]
• Remembering Bhopal, Atlanta Diary, December 21, 2004 [more]
• Serving the nation, The Hindu, Jan 03rd 2005 [more]
• Ludhiana youth fires an Olympic first. [more]
• City man held Olympic torch at Switzerland [more]
• Painting marks India's I-Day at Carnegie Mellon [more]
• AID appeals for donations to flood relief efforts [more]
• Inter-linking of rivers will harm India, AID meet told [more]
• Magsaysay Award Winner Seeks Review of National Water Policy by a Staff Reporter [more]
• Locally Conceived, Globally Supported with the following hyperlink. [more]
• US Group Protests Beating of Magsaysay Winner in Varanasi [more]
• Pandit Shivkumar Sharma performs at AlD concert [more]
• US Indian Leaders Condemn Bombings[more]
• People's rights should not be sacrificed in the name of development' Human rights groups call for rehabilitation of those displaced by Narmada dam
• Activist Helps Build Check Dams to Empower Gujarat Tribals [more]
• Don't let temple and mosque hog your attention, Narmada activist tells secular forces [more]
• Standing ovation to Medha Patkar [more]
• Activist Medha Patkar Calls for More Humanity in World [more]
• AID 5th Annual Conference Volunteers for development find mutual encouragement, as well as learning, during the three-day event in Pittsburgh. [more]
• Greenpeace/Bhopal
• Bhopal Activists Demand that Delhi Ask for Clean-Up [more]
• Narmada activists hold protest rally in U.S. [more]
• Narmada supporters join thousands of protesters against destructive World Bank/IMF policies [more]
• New Directions in Development: AID's Third Annual Conference - June, 2000 [more]

Older press links

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• Sulekha.Com
  On the Trail of AID : Inside Rural Development
  Activism in the Trenches
• The Hindu
  More than their due
• SiliconIndia.Com
  Professionals for a Cause: AID
• Education Times of India
  To the aid of the motherland

A.I.D Press Releases and Statements

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• AID sets up relief fund: appeals for contributions for Assam and Bihar efforts - July 2004 [more]
• Demonstration at the Indian Embassy in Washington, D.C. on Indian Government Inaction in Bhopal - WASHINGTON, D.C., 21 JUNE, 2004 [more]
• NATIONWIDE PROTESTS DEMAND THAT THE INDIAN GOVERNMENT SAY "YES" TO A CLEANUP IN BHOPAL to a cleanup in Bhopal - June 15, 2004 [more]
• AID's sixth annual conference: water, labor rights and other people's movements discussed - May 29th - 31st 2004 [more]
• 350 Give Standing Ovation to Medha Patkar in Silicon Valley [more]
• Indian Dam Decision Threatens Indigenous People; Supreme Court Orders Ignored - May 14, 2003 [more]
• Award-winning photojournalist to exhibit work on rural women in India - 26th March 2003
• AID volunteers strongly condemn attack on kashmiri pundits - March 24, 2003 [more]
• Association for India's Development (AID) launches online fund-raiser - December 8, 2002
• AID statement on the attack on Akshardham Temple in Gandhinagar, Gujarat - September 24, 2002 [more]
• Progressive groups call for peace and communal harmony; several hundred expected to join worldwide fast and condemn violence and government inaction - March 6, 2002 [more]
• Statement by AID Bay Area volunteers related to Sept 11's terrorist incidents in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania - Sept 21, 2001 [more]
•   Association for India's Development (AID)'s 10th Anniversary Conference brings focus on real development issues in India, and highlights potential role of the Indian community in the US - May 31, 2001 [more]
• AID chapters across the world raise over us$ 185,000 for grassroots groups: quake relief to continue into long-term efforts - February 8, 2001 [more]
• Gujarat Earthquake Relief: Association for India's Development (AID) Sets Up Special Fund and Appeals for Immediate Assistance [more]
  
• "Supreme Court verdict on Narmada fails to deliver justice: We stand in solidarity with the Andolan" A message of solidarity from the Bay Area chapter of AID - October 31, 2000. [more]

Awards/Recognition for AID's partners and supported programs

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• Arogya Iyyakkam program of Tamil Nadu Science Forum recognized as one of the 10 best health programs in the world by UNICEF (2002-3)
• ANANDI was recognized by TIME magazine as "Asian Heroes"
[more]
• GREEN Foundation bags UNDP's Equator Prize. [more]
• Anil and Madhu, engineers who designed Bilgaon microhydel project,
  received MIT's Global IndUS Technovator Award (2003) [more]
• The 'Ship of Hope' team comprising of grassroots boat builders,
  volunteers from the Centre for North East Studies (CNES, Delhi), as
  well as volunteers from the AID NorthEast Cell; were one of 20
  finalists chosen out of 1500 contestants to receive a grant of $20,000
  as part of the Development Marketplace grant awards.