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About AID
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Association for India's Development is a volunteer movement promoting sustainable, equitable and just development. AID supports grassroots organizations in India and initiates efforts in various interconnected spheres such as agriculture, energy, education, health , livelihoods, natural resources including land and water, women's empowerment and social justice. |
Consolidated receipts for 2009 donations will be mailed in February 2010. If you need the receipt earlier please feel free to email Naga at rao.chadaram@gmail.com or donor at aidindia.org
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GM Food
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 News is just in that Environmental Minister Jairam Ramesh has declared a moratorium on Bt Brinjal in India. He said that without independent studies on long term health impacts of Genetically Modified brinjal, and with no scientific consensus on Bt Brinjal he is using the pre-cautionary principle to say no to Bt Brinjal. We congratulate India for standing up to the push of Bt Brinjal by seed companies and for protecting its environment and food soverignity. Hard work by various organizations including the GM Free-India, Green Peace, Thanal, and Association for India's Development as well as great work by several Indian scientists and environmental activists has helped prevail over extremly poor "research" on safety issues done by seed companies pushing Bt Brinjal. All the people and groups who fasted on Martyr's day Jan 30 as well as all those who attended National COnsultations, wrote to Jairam Ramesh and organized various actions around the country as well as scientists who gave independent views have helped put a moratorium on Bt Brinjal in India. We hope all countries watching India today follow up with similar decisions to protect their food soverignity and all our environment. This small step of Jairam Ramesh in organizing National Consultations and coming up with a reasonable decision as an environmental minister is a giant leap for India.
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Relief and Rehabilitation
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 I just returned after visiting some of the Aila
Affected
areas where AID has been working with BTS since May, 2009. I spent most
of the
day on a very remote island called the K-plot which was one of the worst
hit
because it is open to the Bay of Bengal. AID
had provided relief and also agricultural training through Revathi and
DRCSC in different parts of West Bengal and the Sunderbans. |
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AID Projects
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 I am this week concluding a one month's visit to Jan Swasthya
Sahyog / JSS (The People's Health Support Group) in Chhattisgarh, a
state in Central India.
I write to you now because JSS, which serves the most
destitute of India, is critically short-staffed and volunteer
opportunities abound. (I personally will return in July 2010 to assist
with a documentation project, based on personal histories, on how
poverty and ill-health interact, each re-enforcing the other.) -- Dr Jonathan E. Fine, M.D., M.P.H., Boston. Read Dr Fine's full note and interview of JSS's Dr Yogesh |
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GM Food
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 On
Martyrs’ day today, more than one lakh Indians observed a one-day fast
to emphasise
that the hard-won independence led by Mahatma Gandhi cannot be lost now
to
agri-business MNCs, with their technologies like GM seeds. Thousands who
observed the one-day fast throughout the country sought to remember the
Mahatma’s
dream of Hind Swaraj and to uphold
the food sovereignty of the country from the onslaught of technologies
like GM
seeds. “Remember the Mahatma, Stop Bt Brinjal and Protect India’s Seed
&
Food Sovereignty” was their message
View media reports throughout the country Photographs of various places that held Satyagraha |
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Agriculture
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 A green experiment : Jan 10, 2010 in Indian Express
So seven months after the cyclone hit
Uttoli village in the Sunderbans, Bishwanath Sahu, a farmer, thought he
would give up trying to reclaim his land. But two months after he gave
organic farming a try, his three-and-half bighas of land was reclaimed.
He has already harvested a crop of rice with significantly less
investment than before. ....Read more.
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