AID - India Conference 2005 AID Delhi Chapter hosted the AID India Conference at AIIMS, Delhi from Dec 17-19,2005 . The conference was attended by more than 200 people, including volunteers from various AID chapters in India and US, partner NGOs and AID well-wishers and donors. Medha Patkar was the keynote speaker. She also released the book - 245 villages : A Narmada Tutorial. Interactive sessions, serious presentatons and cultural activities were all a part of this 3-day conference. 2005 AID India Conference Newsletter contents AID - US Conference 2005 AID Minneapolis, May 28-30, 2005, Minneapolis, MN AID organized its annual conference in Minneapolis on May 28-30 2005. What made 183 volunteers spend their own money to travel all the way to Minneapolis? It is the same magic that makes many of them volunteer several hours a week, thinking about the hard questions of what development really means. Noting the high enthusiasm and idealism among the AID volunteers, Sahitya Akademi winner and founder of the AID-supported Bhaasha tribal academy, Dr.Ganesh Devy, said in his keynote speech that AID is uniquely poised to deliver true and lasting social change to India, and that all the volunteers need to step up to this historic challenge. Inspired by this energy from the AID conference, several new and older volunteers alike have shared their conference experiences with us. We present a few perspectives in our conference newsletter. At once intensely personal and deeply concerned about society, these articles are a reflection of AID's commitment to internal and external change. 2005 Conference newsletter contents | AID Conference 2005 Proceedings site AID - US Conference 2004 AID Austin, May 29-31, 2004, Austin, Texas. Association for India's Development(AID) had it's annual conference at the University of Texas, campus in Austin, Texas, hosted by AID - Austin during the Memorial Day weekend of May 29-31, 2004. More than 200 volunteers participated in the conferece Reverbrating the Change !. AID Conference 2004 Proceedings Site AID - US Conference 2003 AID Pittsburgh, May 24-26, 2003, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Association for India's Development(AID) had it's annual conference at the Carnegie Mellon University campus in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania hosted by AID - Pittsburgh during the Memorial Day weekend May 24-26, 2003. More than 150 volunteers participated in the conferece and brought forward their views and opinions to make India see new Horizons. AID Conference 2003 Proceedings Site AID - US Conference 2002 AID SF Bay Area, May 25-27, 2002, San Francisco, California. Association for India's Development(AID) had it's fifth annual conference at the Stanford University campus in San Francisco California hosted by AID- SF Bay Area during the Memorial Day weekend May 25-27, 2002. More than 120 volunteers participated in the conferece and brought forward their views and opinions to make India see new Horizons. AID Conference 2002 Proceedings Site AID - India Conference 2001 December 30- January 2, 2001, Vishakapatnam, A.P, India. AID - India Conference 2001 Proceedings Site AID - US Conference 2001 AID Head Quarters, May 26-28, 2001, College Park, Maryland. 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. During the Memorial Day weekend of May 26-28, 2001, Association for India's Development (AID) organized a landmark conference signifying the 10th year of the organization. The conference brought together more than 150 people from across the US and some from India, all of them committed to working for true development in rural and urban India. AID volunteers, most of them Non-Resident Indians from different walks of life, engaged themselves in the two facets of the conference: to further build their understanding of development issues, and to plan strategies and action items for increasing their involvement in grassroots development efforts in India. AID Conference 2001 Proceedings Site AID - US Conference 2000 AID-Boston, May 27-29, 2000, MIT, Cambridge, MassachusettsAssociation for India's Development (AID) held its third annual Conference at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) campus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA during May 27-29, 2000. The event was hosted by AID's Boston chapter whose enthusiastic volunteers come from the local Indian-American professional and student communities. About 100 volunteers from AID chapters across the US participated in the AID Conference 2000 which highlighted new and ongoing initiatives in grassroots development work in India and set firm directions for support and participation by organizations of Non-Resident Indian community AID Conference 2000 Proceedings Site AID - India Conference 1999 AID-Chennai, January 1-3, 1999. Nemeli and Chennai, TamilNadu. Association for India's Development (AID) - India held its annual conference at Chennai and Nemeli, India. AID Conference -India 1999 Proceedings Site AID - US Conference 1999 AID-Cincinnati, May 27-29, 1999, Cincinnati, Ohio. Association for India's Development (AID) held its 2nd annual Conference at Cincinnati,Ohio. AID Conference 1999 Proceedings Site |