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Making Education a Reality
 AID INDIA's Eureka Child program pioneered initiatives in Reading, Math, Science and English. What a small group of IIT and BITS alumni started ten
years ago, quitting their corporate careers to work with children in villages and slums, has today become a mass movement for education. Keeping up: The story of Santosh Gond  November, 2006: It was on a visit to the Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS), a rural health clinic in the remote village of Ganiyari, Chattisgarh that I first met Santosh Gond. He sat patiently on a stool while Dr. Anurag Bhargava did a checkup. Santosh has been diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease. Chhattisgarh – In search of peace and justiceBastar area of Chhattisgarh has been a zone of aggravated conflict between the Maoists and the State. After the government began arming the militant Salwa Judum in the name of fighting the Naxalites, civilians find themselves facing more rather than less violence.
Bhopal Marches On Survivors of the 1984 Union Carbide chemical spill met with organizers of the International Campaign for
Justice in Bhopal (ICJB) in Bhopal on January 10-12, 2009, for an annual update and strategy meeting.
Medha Patkar visiting the US: Emory University has invited Medha Patkar to deliver the annual Sheth Lecture in Indian Studies. Seeking her guidance in how Indians abroad can understand and join hands with the struggles for people's right to resources and peaceful, just and democratic society, AID chapters have invited her to meet with volunteers and concerned community members in the following cities:
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Villagers struggle to get Work, Wages via NREGAAndhra Pradesh: National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA) guarantees 100 days manual work per family, helping to reduce seasonal migration. In Andhra Pradesh, NREGA work started in April 2008 but was abruptly withdrawn in July. The children of the Mahammed Bazar Block in the Birbhum district (West Bengal) only hope that one day their dreams of reaching out to the world will become a reality. With AID supporting the Child Growth Center at
the Jamboni Village, the fifth in this block, their hopes for better lives has only taken a step forward.
Your voice counts!
In Jharkhand two activists who helped villagers secure unemployment benefits in January have been jailed on false charges in February. Is this retaliation? Please write to the governor of Jharkhand - see http://www.aidindia.org/ for details. |
Healthcare in the villages of PuruliaHealthcare in the villages of Purulia Perhaps the most effective means of delivering modern medicine to the majority of the people in the countryside is through training village level health workers who can treat several preventable ailments with minimal medication, detect impending medical complications and advise patients to be moved to distant appropriate care centres before they become life threatening. Fatherhood – A journey
This essay is close to my heart because the heroes of it are five children – Sona, Soobi, Sajjaad, Saabreen and Julekha. AID-PRAYAS had helped around 20 children to get admitted to Government schools. Recently Approved ProjectsJanuary-March 2009 Dishaa article in pdf
Editors: Geetu Ambwani and Subhrajit Bhattacharya
Issue 56, January-March 2009
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