AID News for May 17 2004
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AID News for Mon May 17, 2004
Today's Headlines
1) Requests for help
2) Chapter News: Balaji and Kalpana in LA
3) Interesting articles
Today's News
1) Requests for help
(a) Going to India?
AID needs to transport some donated laptops to india, and now carrying a
laptop is duty free. so if any of u know anyone going to india in summer
from anywhere in the US and who might be able to carry a laptop (can be
taken in check-in baggage also if packed properly), please let me know.
The laptops need to reach kanpur (an NGO called Jagriti), but anywhere in
India is fine, Jagriti will manage to get them from u.
please pass on this email to all ur friends as well!
thanks a ton.
Namrata Vaswani <nam...@cfar.umd.edu>
(b) 34 million friends
A retired french teacher is asking for $1 from 34 million folks to fund UNFPA, a United
Nations organization that provides for training and reproductive health care for women all
over the world. Since the funding was cut, this lady is raising the money herself. Believe it
or not, she has raised $2 million already.
http://www.34millionfriends.org
-- Contributed by Arvind Raghavan
2) Chapter news: Balaji and kalpana talk
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AID, Asha, ILP, CRY, Vibha
invites you to meet
BALAJI SAMPATH & KALPANA KARUNAKARAN
Talk and Discussion
HOW BIG IS A 1000?
Expanding micro-level efforts to a 1000-village scale
... and going beyond
WHEN: May 22 (Saturday), 3PM (2.30PM-3PM Reception)
WHERE: Campbell Public Library 77 Harrison Ave. Campbell, CA
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Reading Materials: http://www.aidindia.org/hq/misc/balaji.htm
Directions: http://www.santaclaracountylib.org/campbell/CAdirections.html
Asha for Education is a non-profit volunteer organization working towards
socio-economic change in India through the medium of education. For more
info, please visit www.ashanet.org.
CRY America is Child Relief and You America, Inc., a non-profit
organization registered in the USA that works towards restoring basic
rights to underprivileged children, especially from India.
http://www.america.cry.org .
``Vibha is a volunteer organization working to ensure that every
underprivileged child attains his or her right to education, health and
opportunity. Among others, Vibha funds 'People's School Movement', a
project by Tamilnadu Science Foundation. For more info:
http://www.vibha.org''
-- Contributed by Rajesh V
3) Interesting Articles
AP's electoral earthquake by P Sainath The crushing defeat suffered by Mr. Chandrababu Naidu’s
Telugu Desam Party (TDP) covers every region. Coastal Andhra, as well as Rayalaseema and
Telangana. The TDP won less than a third of the seats in its north coastal region stronghold.
Nor was the rout mainly driven by the issue of Telangana statehood. It was a mandate against
Mr. Naidu, his policies and his style of governance. This was the second biggest defeat in the
state’s electoral history. Coming days will delight the number crunchers, as margins, regional
dispersal, caste composition and other data become clearer.
http://www.indiatogether.org/2004/may/psa-appolls.htm
PREHISTORY OF HINDUTVA
The space for each Hindu to decide what Hinduism is must remain
by Ramachandra Guha
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1040417/asp/opinion/story_3133084.asp
Related links:
Tribal voice and violence by Ganesh Devy
http://www.india-seminar.com/2002/513/513%20ganesh%20devy.htm
-- Contributed by Arvind Raghavan
Study: Brain Prefers Working for Cash
It's nicer when you actually earn it. Lottery winners, trust-fund babies and others who get
their money without working for it do not get as much satisfaction from their cash as those
who earn it, a study of the pleasure center in people's brains suggests.
<<http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=624&e=2&u=/ap/money_for_nothing>
-- Contributed by Arvind Raghavan
Kailash Satyarthi's work is rescuing children.
Throughout India, Satyarthi's mission in life is to change a system in which some children go
to work before they are 14. "If I was not fighting against child labor, I don't know what else
I could do. It was always in my heart, I could not live without that." He raids factories, but
sometimes factory owners flee before he arrives. Sometimes he arrives to find children locked
in dark rooms. Sometimes children are hiding in fear. In one case, a factory owner had told
child laborers the police were coming to kill them. Some of the kids hid in trees. A field
nearby revealed one terrified child after another.
<<http://abcnews.go.com/sections/WNT/PersonofWeek/pow_Kailash_Satyarthi_040514-1.html>>
-- Contributed by Priya Ranjan
That's it for the day, folks.
Arun Sripati
Just another Quote
What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals.
-- Zig Ziglar
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