About AID Gurgaon
AID Gurgaon is the Gurgaon chapter of Association for India’s development (AID). AID is a volunteer driven nonprofit organization 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. The major thrust of AID Gurgaon is on Education for underprivileged children. We support four education centers - Unnati, Disha, Shiksharth and Prerna in Gurgaon. The funds for our activities are raised through corporate and individual contributions as well as sale of merchandise.To know more about AID Gurgaon, you can sift through our website, go through our blog or contact us directly here.
About AID Gurgaon Our USP
AID Gurgaon is completely volunteer driven. Except regular teachers at each educatonal center, there are no salaried personnel for managing activities, events or funds. Even our website, is developed and maintained by volunteers. This means that we have "0" administration costs and every rupee you donate goes in to making the real difference on the field.
Our Projects
About Unnati
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/unnati
Project Type: Education center
Location: Jharsa Village, Gurgaon
Student strength: 45
AID Gurgaon’s first step towards its goal of providing non formal education to the underprivileged children. Unnati was started 3 years ago and caters to many children who belong to the construction sites surrounding Jharsa village. The center had just started with a carpet and today it is blooming with everything that a classroom should possess. Many children from Unnati have progressed and been put into public or governmental schools. Today, it has 45 students brimming with enthusiasm and creativity. The batch is divided into 2 sections depending on the children’s literacy level. The center runs 6 days a week under a regular teacher. In December 2008, the nutrition program at Unnati was started which provides basic nutrition of milk and dry fruits everyday to the children.
To view pictures of Unnati, click here
About Disha
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/disha
Project Type: Education center
Location: Jharsa Village, Gurgaon
Student Strength: 45
The centre was inaugurated on the 26th of January, 2009 with an aim to provide literacy to children from community of rag pickers in Jharsa Village. The need arose as the Unnati centre had reached its capacity .The current beneficiary strength is 60. Since July’09, nutrition program started at Disha centre as a part of the health initiative. A few of the children from Disha have also been enrolled in private or government school.
About Srijan
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/Srijan
Project Type: Community Campaign
AID-Gurgaon has proposed the project “SRIJAN”, aiming at a Beggar Free Society (currently covering National Capital Region [NCR]). The initial phase of this project will focus on creating awareness among the public by means of schools, colleges, corporate, emails, flyers, banners, and media. We also plan to prepare a report on Beggary in India based on the survey we would conduct of the existing government facilities and programmes for beggars as well as incorporating general public’s suggestions/ideas. With that report, we would approach the government and other organisations working towards rehabilitation of beggars and extend a helping hand to work toward providing them (beggars) an alternative life support system.
About Green Gurgaon Campaign - G Square
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/GreenGurgaonCampaign
Project Type: Environmental Campaign
This campaign is directed towards the environment and aims to provide a better, cleaner and greener breathing space. This campaign comes in response to our responsibility towards the environment that has given us this life of existence. Every fortnight, a tree plantation drive is organized which is followed up every week in order to vigil the planted trees. The present location is situated near Rajiv Chowk, NH 8 and the first plantation drive was held in September 2009. Today the area is properly fenced and a guard has been employed who helps in the everyday maintenance of the area.
About Prerna
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/prerna
Project Type: Education center
Location: Sector-14, Gurgaon
Student Strength: 50
"No child is born imperfect. Every life is a blessing and a hope for mankind."
With this conviction, we have started project PRERNA to help the kids in the slums. Project PRERNA is an inspiration to make a difference in their lives. Prerna was started started on 14th Nov,2009,(Children Day) for Saturday and Sunday Classes only. Currently a regular teacher is conducting daily classes at the project.
About Shiksharth
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/shiksharth
Project Type: Education center
Location: Kanhai village near RD City & Sector 45 & Sector 44, Gurgaon
Student Strength: 50
On Sunday, Nov 6, 2009, Zariya and AID- Gurgaon chapter launched their project Shiksharth to educate the underprivileged children residing in the slums of Kanhai village in Gurgaon. Shiksharth is a community school based out of Kanhai village. The volunteers from AID Gurgaon and Zariya walked around the slums in Kanhai village to spread the word of importance of education for all. The team registered the students into the school and on its first day on Sunday saw an overwhelming response from the residents. The school on its inaugural day marked the attendance for 40 children from the village. Sarpanch Satish Yadav ji inaugurated the school in the presence of the volunteers and a few guests that included Colonel Rajinder Singh. Shiksharth has taken its first flight with one teacher and forty students, and aims at achieving a headcount of 125-150 students to be managed by four teachers. The school will operate, from 9 am to 1:30pm from Monday thru Friday and 9am to 12pm on Saturdays, in the premises adjoining the temple in Kanhai village. The purpose would be to provide the remedial classes for weak and underprivileged kids and prepare them for admission to the public schools. The project Shiksharth owes sincere thanks to the Sarpanch Satish Yadav ji of Kanhai village for providing the land and all the support and the residents of Kanhai village in showing their faith in us.
About Jivika
http://gurgaon.aidindia.org/Jivika
Project Type: LivelihoodUnderthis project we run sewing classes for select students at Disha andUnnati education centres after the class timings. This helps us impartbasic skills that will enable these students to have earning option infuture. This also helps build confidence in these youth that they canlearn and earn from their skills. Another benifit of running thisprogram at our education centres is that we are able to utilise thespace infrastructure to its best.
Fun and work at AID Gurgaon
2009-2010
Fund raising through sale of Calendars
AID Gurgaon took the initiative of raising funds and increasing awareness about its activities through sale of its calendars(SAPNEY) in Gurgaon. The drive is still on. Help us spread the word and contribute by sharing the calendars with your freinds and family. For more details please click here.
Independence day celebrations in Unnati and Disha AID- Gurgaon celebrated the 62nd Indipendence day to pay tribute to the men who gave us identity called INDIAN the event was full of fun ,enjoyment and patriotism ..part from Flag hoisting ,and national anthem ....all other performaces were really great .. It was great learning for "us" along with kids,as kids presented as small skit with message " Kathni aur Karni mein antar "and then kids going with song "Ik din mitt jayega maati ke mol,Jag mein rehjayenge pyare tere bol" and lots more !! For more details about the celebration, click here.
2008-2009
Regular student Education Program (RSEP) We conducted a fund raising drive in Gurgaon to enable some of our bright students move on from our non-formal education to mainstream schools. As part of this drive Rs 60,000 were collected from the Gurgaon office and are being utilized to fund main stream education in form of scholarships. To know more about RSEP, click here. To view our past success stories, click here.
Holi celebrations We started with a lesson in colors from two volunteers. The kids did not disappoint and had all the answers. This was followed by the kids enjoying some grub from McDonalds. Sensitive that they are to family's needs, some of them saved it for later to share it with their families. And finally "Holi hai".................all the restraint which our kids (and us too) had displayed, finally gave way to full scale revelry - nobody was spared - the teacher, the friends, the classmate they had never interacted with before, the bhaiyas and the didis, and the onlookers - from left right and centre, the colors and the water came pouring. For pics, click here
Republic Day celebrations in Unnati and Disha From dance to patriotic songs, from the loud roar of "Bharat Mata ki Jai" and "Jai Hind" to the respect of the national flag (we did not notice a single flag thrown on the ground), ball n bucket games to drawing competitions, from the sweets distribution to prize distributions, it displayed great organization effort by all the volunteers. For pics, click here
About AID NCR
- The Delhi Chapter of AID came into being on a cool 26th January morning, in the year 2004
- AID Delhi has built its forte in the realm of Education, possessing a strong foundation in various non-formal education projects all over NCR
- AID Delhi through its various projects and initiatives across NCR has been able to influence around 410+ Children between age of 4-15 years who are provided with non-formal education and regular Health and Nutrition Support
- AID Delhi has been long supported by various corporates like Royal Bank of Scotland, Evalueserve, Sapient, Corporate Executive Board and ST Microelectronics
About AID
- AID is a volunteer driven organization, which was established in 1991
- AID India is a registered non-profit organization in India with id DIT (E) No. 2(164) 98-99 ; with 50% tax exemption available on monetary contributions
- The organization is run by people who are professionals employed in various companies
- Being volunteer driven helps us keep administrative costs low and ecological footprint minimal
- To know about founders of AID, please click here.
