AIDJHU programme for Hariprasad Chaurasia concert

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Sep 22, 2012Baltimore, MD

Pandit Hariprasadchaurasia

welcome to an evening with the legendary

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The Association for India’s Development Johns Hopkins University (AIDJHU) presents a con-cert with one of the greatest maestros of Indi-an classical music. This concert is a unique and rare opportunity to experience the music of a living legend.

Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia plays the bans-uri, the Indian bamboo fl ute. For over 45 years, Panditji has enthralled listeners with his soulful, meditative music that combines both tradition and improvisation. He has performed across the world, winning acclaim from varied audiences and fellow musicians including the late Yehudi Menuhin and Jean Pierre Rampal. In addition to recording as a soloist, Panditji has played with the Symphony Orchestra at the Royal Festival Hall in London and at the 1998 Nobel Peace Prize Concert. He is a recipient of India’s second highest civilian award, the Padma Vibhushan and many other accolades. Panditji also heads the World Music Department at the Rotterdam Music Conservatory.

Pandit HariprasadChaurasia

a living legend

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R e c o g n i t i o n sPanditji is an acclaimed artist who has won many awards and honours throughout his career. A selection of these include:

• National Award of the San-geet Natak Academy (1984)

• Konark Samman (1992)• Padma Bhushan (1992)• Yash Bharati Sanman

(1994)• Rajiv Gandhi Ekta Award

(1998)• Padma Vibhushan (2000)

• Hafeez Ali Khan Award (2000)

• Dinanath Mangeshkar Award (2000)

• Orders des Arts et Lettres / Knight of the Order of Arts & Letters (2009)

• Nada Vidya Bharati (2010)• 3 Honorary doctorates


Anubrata ChatterjeeAnubrata Chatterjee, the son of world-renowned tab-la maestro, Pandit Anindo Chatterjee, is one of the most accomplished tabla players of his generation. He began his career performing with Pt. Chaurasia. Chatterjee’s per-formance is marked by crisp tonal quality and the presen-tation of rare compositions with extreme clarity.

A c c o m pa n y i n g A rt i s t s

Prasad BhandarkarPrasad Bhandarkar started learning Indian classical mu-sic at eight years old. During his college years, a striking performance by Pt. Chaur-asia lead him to take interest in the bansuri. Currently, he is one of the leading disciples of Pt. Chaurasia and is infl u-enced by Panditji’s soulful style. Bhandarkar will pro-vide bansuri fl ute support.


Association for India's Development (A.I.D.) &

t h e ca m pa i g n

One day a gentleman visited an A.I.D. table at a community outreach event and he asked, “Why don’t the people in slums just go away?” We feel the question should instead be, “Where are these people coming from?” There are two India’s living inside India; one is Shin-ning India and the other is Bharat. Shinning India is fl exing its muscle in the global economy, while Bharat, which is the soul of India, is paying a price. Injustice, corruption, harass-ment, hunger, illiteracy is driving millions of Indians from the heart of India, the villages, to migrate to cities and in many cases commit suicide. A.I.D. feels these problems can be solved by intervention at the grassroots level and these problems can be eff ectively solved by involving the aff ected communities. Involving these communities needs a single act of acknowledgement, listening. Thus the Listen For India campaign was born in eff ort to bring voices of people at the grassroots level. Tonight, when you are listening to one of the greatest musician this world has ever heard, please also think and lis-ten to the voice of the India in pain.

t h e ca m pa i g n

an A.I .D. initiative to bring voices to grassroots India


current projects

Srinivasan C from Vellore is revolutionizing the way waste will be handled in India. Zero waste management involves collect-ing and segregating the household left overs into recyclable and compost materials, generating employment for 10 peo-ple per plant. The peo-ple employed are mostly the ones who were earn-ing less than $0.5 a day. Through this initiative they would be earning $2-3 a day, surpassing the UN poverty line.

Zero Waste ManagementApprox. $10,000 / plant


current projects

On left page and above: The new solid and liquid waste management plants being opera-tionalized in Ambaji constituency of the Gujarat state.

Zero Waste ManagementThrough various waste management projects across India, AID partners like Indian Green Services are showcasing the eff ectiveness of the waste management. True to the Gandhian philosophy, the initiatives are starting in rural India where people at the grassroots India are taking the initiative of building their own future.

Approx. $10,000 / plant


current projects

Eureka Child

Do you think providing education without comprehension is a good investment? Most of the students in Rural India are promoted to the next level in school without any signifi cant increase in their comprehension. Many students after years of education fi nd it diffi cult to perform even basic arithmetic operations like addition and subtraction. Eureka, Eureka! We found a way to solve this problem by use of innovative toys and fun games to provide quality education to the rural kids where we have found a marked improvement in their level of comprehension.

Approx. $1,000 / village


current projects

Eureka Child

Eureka Child is now operational in 1000 villages of Tamil Nadu and 100 villages of Bihar.

For more information, please visit www.eurekachild.org.

Approx. $1,000 / village


current projects

Jan Swasthya Sahyog

Health care program by A.I.D. partner Jan Swasthya Sahyog has been rated as the best model for developing countries.

Mother and child patients at JSS.

Through its innovative and patentable rural technology, Jan Swasthya Sahyog (JSS) has taken empowerment of rural In-dian community to a new high. Working in around 137 fringe villages where no government facility is present, JSS is fi ght-ing some of the grim issues of Malaria epidemic. JSS operates a crèche program so that the elder kids can go to school and parents can go to fi eld without stress to maintain nutrition level of their newborn. This program has helped to lower mal-nutrition in the tribal villages of Chattisgarh.

Approx. $32,000 / year


current projects

Jan Swasthya Sahyog

Left: Baby sized sleeping bags: To save newborns from hypothermia in the mountain villages. The bag has a pocket where a big packet of palm oil can be heated in boiling water and inserted for additional heat

Above left: Naina Chalisa: A set of reading glasses over a range of power from which villagers can choose on their own without having to go to an ophthalmologist. This has been very popular with the people.

Above right: Handwashing station for village homes: The plastic pipe is fi tted with an iron strip which when lifted is held by the magnet eliminating the need for a tap. Above: UV fi lter for drinking water: The lid for a 20 litre steel

container is fi tted with a UV lamp which can run either on 220V AC or 15V DC from solar power.



current projects

Chetana Vikas

GM (Genetically-modifi ed) cotton, commonly known as Bt-cotton created havoc in low rainfall central India when multiple crops of farmers failed and farmers were debt ridden. 200,000 cotton farmers have committed suicide over the past 20 years in central India.

To regenerate farmer self-reliance, A.I.D. partner Chetana Vi-kas has initiated building demonstration organic farms to show case farming models based on organic farming. Farmers have consistently shown profi tability over the past 3 years and the program has now reached to 250 farmers from the initial 50 farmers, an organic growth which will help farmer to unlearn the techniques imposed on them.



current projects

Berabhenge School

Amlasole made headlines in 2004 for starvation-related deaths in the Sabar community. This region of West Bengal is one of the most under-developed regions in all of India. A.I.D. initi-ated an intervention in this area in 2012 by supporting a small crèche (i.e. daycare) program and school education for the kids of Sabar community, through a unique way of localized textbook in the native Bengali dialect of the region.

Approx. $7000 / year


current projects

Vellore Hill Restoration

On this page: Workers and volunteers working hard toware the restoration of the geography.

Above and top of right page: Check dam digging in progress and complete.



current projects

The aim of the Vellore Hill restoration project is to reduce the temperature of the area by 4 degrees Celcius by regenerating forest in the neighboring hills of Vellore. The action plan was to dig check dams all over the mountain ranges circling the Vellore area and plant trees around the hills. The renewed growth of this landscape is living proof of the success of this project.

Vellore Hill Restoration

Above: Vellore Hill before (left) and after (right). What a diff erence!



current projects

Paivihir Eco Village

How could we duplicate the success in the Vellore Hill resto-ration but reduce the cost overall? Where would the funds come from? Using the power of right to information to eff ectively utilize national rural employment guarantee scheme, AIDJHU initiated this project in tbe Melghat region of Maharashtra at 1/15th of the cost of Vellore Hill project. The villagers have taken up task of aff or-estation of 190 hect-ares of the forest hills and the message has spread to neighboring two villages already.



current projects

solar lamps

In 2012, A.I.D. distributed 3000 solar lamps un-der the theme of “gift a solar lamp” during the Diwali festival of lights season. A.I.D. sub-sidized the solar lamps by provid-ing Rs. 150 per lamp to the villag-ers and remaining Rs.500 was paid by the villagers of remote villages of

Chhattisgarh. The lamps were distributed free of cost to the village health workers of the Jan Swasthya Sahyog. The aim of the project was to encourage use of solar powered lamps in these villages which will reduce the dependency of villagers on the traditional oil lamps. This will thereby increase sustain-ability eff orts and self-suffi ciency for these villages.



current projects

Right to information on wheels

RTI Act was passed in 2005. This act resulted victoriously for the common people, with their exuberant slogans “Hum Janenge Hum Jiyenge” (We will know, we will live), and “Hamara Paisa Hamara Hisab” (Our money, our accounts). RTI ensures that every Indian citizen has access to in-formation that lies with public domain. It compels public au-thorities to adopt transparent procedures in functioning and in decision-making. This leads to improved governance in the system. India’s fi rst mobile legal clinic was launched in 2008 with support from A.I.D. & Janpath – a network of orga-nization in Gujarat. RTI on Wheels is a van consisting of a small library containing RTI literature such as pamphlets, fact sheets, books, user manuals, sample applications, etc. It also carries a TV, various multimedia, a laptop with internet connectivity, and a public address system. It is accompanied by two people, a paralegal worker and a volunteer. They both

Approx. $30,000 / bus


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Right to information on wheelshelp people understand the usability of the law, and also sup-port them in drafting RTI queries. Till date, RTI on Wheels has covered over half a million kms, and has reached over 6000 villages across various Indian states. RTI on Wheels is described as one of the best practices that can be easily replicated. Some states, like Meghalaya, have also adopted this model to develop a state-run mobile RTI for RTI awareness and support, particuarly to garo and Khasi — tribal communities. The Gujarat government is also planning to introduce a mobile RTI system. The fi rst RTI on Wheels is successful in demonstrating the need and usage of multimedia for RTI education, awareness, and guidance. There is need for a second RTI on Wheels which will incorporate what we have learned since 2005. We appeal for active support for these eff orts of strengthening democracy and sincerely hope that all those who are internested in the development of the democracy in India will join in these eff orts through their con-tribution.

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