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India's Development
Courage | Commitment | Change | April
2010 | | | Editors: Tathagata Sengupta, Amrita Balachandran, and Karthik Ranganathan | | | | |
While sustainability and biodiversity have become recent buzzwords in conversations all over the world, they have been a feature of AID's initiatives since inception. Challenging contemporarily accepted notions of development and innovation that erode the planet's resources, AID has consistently helped provide a platform for the revitalization of sustainable traditional methods and wisdom.
In this edition of Dishaa, we bring to you some of AID's recent efforts of the same. Even as the challenges of ushering in a plastic-free world force a rethink of our everyday activities, from our clothes to our baby's clothes, the Vellore Hill Restoration Project dreams to do more, while greening and cooling the barren Vellore Hills. We also showcase the community kitchens that feed the most vulnerable of the Cyclone-Aila ravaged Sunderban's populace, while taking a critical look at the Indian regulator's tryst with biodiversity, one that reveals some and conceals more.
Warm regards,
Volunteers, Association for India's Development
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| | | Greening the Vellore Hills
 Increasing the water table, bringing down the average temperature in Vellore, restoring the green cover on the hills, and providing sustainable eco-friendly solutions for waste management - the Vellore Hill Restoration Project envisions a green, sustainable future in the state of Tamil Nadu.
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| | | Community Kitchens Fight Hunger
 Cyclone Aila's destruction of agriculture, the rising food prices, and a lack of local food production have forced thousands of families to reduce their food intake significantly. Worst affected are the old and the infirm, who become the first people to be deprived. AID volunteers and their partners BTS and Mukti started 5 community kitchens in the most deprived parts of the Aila-affected areas, to ensure a healthy cooked meal once a day for the most vulnerable sections of the community.
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| | | Plastic-Free Living
 In Ponduru (Andhra Pradesh), at the base of the mountains that are quarried, lie mounds of trash, bearing labels of global corporations, full of plastic and other disposable products that have replaced reusable cloth items. Huge subsidies to the petroleum industry make plastic and polyester cheaper than their eco-friendly alternatives. Yet, eco-friendly options abound, and their benefits are for the world to see. [Read more...] | | |
| | | Biodiversity: Caught in the Legal Web
 As one witnesses biodiversity, related knowledges and livelihoods being more and more regulated through legal webs such as NBA, BRAI, one just knows there is much more left to unfold. The Indian government is way ahead in its closed door deliberations, and we've only just begun catching up. [Read more...] | | |
| | | In the Wake of the Floods: A Flood-Relief Update from Karnataka
 In the initial weeks of recovery after last year's disastrous floods, Jagrutha Mahila Sangathan used relief funds to distribute rice and grain to villages in need. Soon after, focusing on rehabilitating the villages in a sustainable manner, JMS provided the villagers with eco-friendly biomass stoves and developed a model rooftop rainwater-harvesting unit, for collecting clean drinking water. Achieving self-sufficiency was the single largest priority.
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| | | Destination Seattle
Over 120 AID volunteers from different chapters across the US and other parts of the globe, will congregate in Seattle during the Memorial Day weekend, for the 2010 Annual AID-US Conference (May 28-31) for wide-ranging discussions on tribal rights, organic farming, rural health-care and much more. [Read more...] | | |
| | | Recently Approved Projects
Your contributions have helped support projects from wildlife preservation through Kalpavriksh, to promoting millet farming in Anantapur, from empowering women through the Utthan Gender Program, to supporting Bhopali survivors through their two-month long dharna in support of the Empowered Commission on Bhopal proposal. All this and much more! [Read more...] | | |
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