AID Delhi Chapter - AID India, Delhi Chapter

Cells are small study groups. These will gather the information required for future projects.Most of the cells are related to awareness. Whenever there are sufficient volunteers, these cells can be taken as a project.

This cell will essentially spearhead the "Right to Information" campaign from AID Delhi's side. We already have some basic contacts with Parivartan (the pioneer in "Right to Info" in Delhi). The participants will interact more with Parivartan. They should also be members of Right to Information Manch - which was launched about an year back and is a stable forum now. They will update the group about RTI, file RTI applications and also encourage other AID volunteers to file RTI applications and be active and aware citizens.

This cell doesn't need any introduction - think all that you can think of. Yamuna, Rainwater harvesting, Toxic wastes, energy conservation, water conservation, alternative energy, waste management, environment sensitive technologies etc. will only be some of the things that this group will work on... The group will have enormous flexibility in what all the cell desires to take up. Essentially, this cell will spearhead AID Delhi's foray into environment related issues. Activities on Envirionment day (June 5), Yamuna Walk, Toxics tour etc. all come under the purview of this cell.

This cell will spearhead AID Delhi's initiative in health care. The cell should begin by writing health related pamphlets and translating those in English to Hindi. This cell will also be involved in "affordable" health care techniques / activities for the urban poor (and if possible rural poor). This will also involve studying age-old health care practices in different cultures and communities and documenting how they fit into the society of today. The cell can also arrange visits of doctors to our different projects etc.

This cell should work in close consonance with Dhriiti. We have been in contact with Dhriiti (www.dhriiti.org) also for some time. They are a very active group of young people (young like us ;) ) who are working for community empowerment. They work with the community to design a livelihood generation methodology / business model for them. This cell will spearhead AID Delhi's foray into micro-credit, self-help groups and community entrepreunership. This cell can start with studying different community empowerment case studies from over the world to get a good feel of what a big difference their contribution can make. Anirban Gupta and Nidhi (of Dhriiti) will be more than happy to help and guide us through this :)

Does this cell even need an introduction? OK, this cell will be involved in thinking innovative ways of fund-raising for AID Delhi (and its partner NGOs). The target is to make donors aware of AID's activities and then motivate them to contribute to the cause of India's development. We can collaborate with Art and Dance clubs in different colleges and ask us to perform for a charity show - not only will we promote local talent, but also raise money at very low cost. Need to work with lots of groups. This is one of the most exciting (and possibly strenous) activities. I mean, I remember the excitement and the tension when we organized fund-raiser concert in San Diego...

The name being self explanotory, the women's cell will spearhead AID's foray into women related issues. The cell aims at identifying and highlighting issues that are of concern to women and working towards finding feasible solutions to these problems. Eve teasing , domestic violence, discrimnatory gender roles, women's health are all issues that the cell would be looking into. We also hope to sensitise a large majority of the urban Delhi population ( especially men!) towards these issues. Have a look at the eve teasing survey!