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Relief and Rehabilitation
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Orissa Relief | West Bengal Relief
The Association for India's Development (AID) has approved two emergency grants totaling $20,000 to support relief efforts in the states of Orissa and West Bengal in India which have seen massive flooding the last 2 weeks due to heavy and incessant rains, with a death toll of nearly 100 and an affected population of over 10 lakh people in the region. AID is calling on all concerned to generously support its relief efforts in India by making specifically directed contributions to its relief fund.
The worst affected areas are the districts of Balasore, Mayurbhanj (Orissa), East and West Midnapore (West Bengal). Besides destroying homes, schools, Panchayat offices, electric and water supply, the floods have also wiped out livestock and crops in these areas, leaving the people abandoned. Lack of food, and potable water have also triggered off a wide range of epidemics and infectious diseases.
AID, working with AID-Orissa, Unnayan and Kajla Jan Kalyan Samiti, has reached out to several villages in the flood-affected areas, providing them with food, drinking water and relief materials. Medical camps have been set up to treat the affected. However they are still in dire need of funds for boats, food, water and relief materials. Read more on Orissa or West Bengal .
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Kothuru villagers demand enquiry on NREG work after RTI is denied |
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Campaigns
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June 27, 2008. Kothuru, District Srikakulam: Villagers march to Mandal Revenue Office to demand an enquiry into National Rural Employment Guarantee Scheme (NREGS) work in their villages. In reponse to complaints from several villages, the Committee to Achieve Right to Work asked for Muster Rolls and Pay Orders from the Assistant Project Officer via a Right to Information (RTI) Application. She refused to accept the application People have written to to the NREGS Project Director and the Collector of Srikakulam District, and plan to hold workshops for villagers seeking just and accountable implementation of government programs like NREGA in their villages. Do you want to attend? Write to aid.hyd AT gmail.com. More pictures.
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Hunger strike for Bhopal: June 10 to ?? |
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Campaigns
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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
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Eureka Child: Making education a reality for All children |
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Newsflashes
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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%! Read more... |
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