Association For India's Development
I volunteer for a non profit organization named Association For India's Development. It gives me a great kick to work for the upliftment of the country that has given me the identity in this world. India has a very large tech population and still, when to compare it to the population of a huge country like India, the techs only represent a microscopic minority. There is more to India than the techies.
There is a huge population still living way below the poverty line. People who cannot even afford the basic amenities and struggling to make the ends meet. Association For India's Development is a non profit organization formed by the Indians, for the Indians, of the Indians. We work for the upliftment of the poor and underprivileged sections of rural India. The organization had its roots as a $200 project in a student apartment in University of Maryland, College Park. After 12 long years, AID has grown into a few hundred thousand dollar organization spreading its wings to 36 chapters across America.
So whats so great? AID has no paid employees, only volunteers. Volunteers are basically Indian graduate students. Grad students who have seen the best of the western world and yearn for the overall development of their motherland. AID has close to 400 of these committed individuals working in unison for a noble cause concerning the rural and urban poor.
So why did I join and why should you? For a long time, I have wanted to something of substance to India. Like most of us, I had wasted 22 years thinking what I could do and then I bumped into AID with whose founders and fellow volunteers I could identify myself. The common thread was Indian graduate students in the United States wanting to make a difference in India and the cause attracted me and I have become as addicted to it as a kid would be to a PS2 gameset.
I urge fellow students, professionals in India as well as in the United States to join AID for one reason - You Can Make a Difference and the satisfaction you get when you realize that you have made a difference is ineffable. We have complained and whined about the situations and scenarios in India for a long time. We have waited for the Government to force changes with little cooperation from citizens. Now its our turn to take things in our hands. Here is a social movement that we can support, join and contribute thereby launching our contry on the path of "Real" Development. Please www.aidindia.org for more information regarding the organization.
For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike
When you are the anvil bear
When you are the hammer strike
I volunteer for a non profit organization named Association For India's Development. It gives me a great kick to work for the upliftment of the country that has given me the identity in this world. India has a very large tech population and still, when to compare it to the population of a huge country like India, the techs only represent a microscopic minority. There is more to India than the techies.
There is a huge population still living way below the poverty line. People who cannot even afford the basic amenities and struggling to make the ends meet. Association For India's Development is a non profit organization formed by the Indians, for the Indians, of the Indians. We work for the upliftment of the poor and underprivileged sections of rural India. The organization had its roots as a $200 project in a student apartment in University of Maryland, College Park. After 12 long years, AID has grown into a few hundred thousand dollar organization spreading its wings to 36 chapters across America.
So whats so great? AID has no paid employees, only volunteers. Volunteers are basically Indian graduate students. Grad students who have seen the best of the western world and yearn for the overall development of their motherland. AID has close to 400 of these committed individuals working in unison for a noble cause concerning the rural and urban poor.
So why did I join and why should you? For a long time, I have wanted to something of substance to India. Like most of us, I had wasted 22 years thinking what I could do and then I bumped into AID with whose founders and fellow volunteers I could identify myself. The common thread was Indian graduate students in the United States wanting to make a difference in India and the cause attracted me and I have become as addicted to it as a kid would be to a PS2 gameset.
I urge fellow students, professionals in India as well as in the United States to join AID for one reason - You Can Make a Difference and the satisfaction you get when you realize that you have made a difference is ineffable. We have complained and whined about the situations and scenarios in India for a long time. We have waited for the Government to force changes with little cooperation from citizens. Now its our turn to take things in our hands. Here is a social movement that we can support, join and contribute thereby launching our contry on the path of "Real" Development. Please www.aidindia.org for more information regarding the organization.
For all your days prepare
And meet them ever alike
When you are the anvil bear
When you are the hammer strike
