We are outraged that survivors from the Union Carbide (now Dow Chemical) gas tragedy in Bhopal have been stripped, beaten and arrested by the Indian police in Madhya Pradesh.  Instead of meeting their demands and making Dow Chemicals clean up the contaminated factory site (one would have thought the 24 years that have passed since were enough time for this to have been done) which is adversely affecting the health of local residents, the Bhopal survivos protesting for the Prime Minister Manmohan Singh to meet them (isn't over 100 days of walking to and camping at Delhi enough to get an audience with his highness), have been ignored, beaten and jailed.  They have started an indefinite fast.  Would you like to express your solidarity by joining them by fasting for a day or more at your home?  Click here

Education in the primary schools in India is presently facing tremendous crisis. Surprisingly access to schools or primary education is not the actual problem. In fact more than 95% of the children in India actually go to schools. It is because of the poor teaching quality and learning levels that learning is not taking place in the schools. The 2007 national survey on education, which AID India participated in, has shown that 50% of the children in fifth standard in the schools in India are unable to read simple stories or do simple division problems!

Eureka Child, an AID India initiative, tackles this challenge head on. Over the past decade, the EurekaChild initiative has developed numerous creative learning modules for reading, math and the sciences. In 2006, as part of a Govt supported pilot program, AID India reached out to 450,000 children in 7000 schools across Tamil Nadu. The program met with dramatic success - within 6 months reading ability improved from 50% to 80%!