Eureka!
AID’s Eureka program aims to uplift marginalized communities throughout India through a comprehensive approach that includes education, health, and infrastructure development. Eureka focuses on empowering communities by addressing the root causes of poverty and lack of access to essential services. The program’s goal is to create sustainable improvements in rural areas, ensuring that individuals have the resources and support needed to thrive. Through a combination of targeted initiatives to address the most pressing issues at a variety of levels, Eureka seeks to build resilient and self-sufficient communities, providing opportunities for a better quality of life.
The Eureka Child Fund helps ensure quality education and health for children from marginalized families.
The Three Pillars of Eureka
- Training teachers in government schools.
- Providing free evening tutoring in villages
- Establishing libraries and pre-primary centers.
- Education: English, science, and tinkering clubs; evening learning centers; early childhood education.
- Health: Access to healthcare services and livelihood programs.
- Livelihood: Support for sustainable income-generating activities.
- Infrastructure: Construction of homes for the homeless, provision of bathrooms, and establishment of community libraries.
- Rights and Entitlements: Ensuring community members are aware of and can access their rights and entitlements.
- Ms. Soundarya (Kannangudi village): A student living with her widowed mother and sister in a severely damaged house.
- Ms. Deepa (Kannangudi village): Living with her grandparents after her father abandoned the family; their hut was completely damaged.
- Mrs. Brindhavathi (Adivaraganallur village): A daily wage worker with two sons, whose hut was devastated by the flood.
- Mr. Sukumar and Ms. Selvi (Chinna Colony village): A couple with two children, living in a severely damaged hut, with Selvi as the sole earner
Our Impact
Deserving families are provided modest shelter through our Eureka Homes program.