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Dancing our way to mental health fitness
Founded by Shankar Venkateswaran,
Saurabh Srivastava, Ashok Alexander,
Nishith M. Desai in 2003
AIF envisions a more equitable,
inclusive, and vibrant democracy
in India where each individual,
regardless of location, gender or social
status, can realize their full potential.
It is committed to improving the
lives of India’s underprivileged
through high impact interventions
in education, livelihoods, and public
health. AIF’s programmes have
impacted the lives of 16.51 million
of India’s poor across 36 States and
Union Territories of India, including
empowering 7.25 million children
through digital technology and STEM
education, 349,505 pregnant women
through its public health programmes
and 2.2 million youth, marginalized
women, and Persons with Disabilities,
to secure sustainable livelihoods.
its digital equaliser
programme
empowers children
in government schools through digital
technology and STEM education. Its low-
cost public health programme, the Maternal
and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI)
supports quality home-based care for
mothers and children while improving
local health systems. LAMP (the Learning
and Migration Program) provides access to
education to the oſten-missed-out children
of migrant workers. Entre-Prerana is a
high-impact intervention to resurrect the
livelihoods of the nano-entrepreneurs of
India – the street vendors.
Each of the above innovative and
agile programmes (and many others
like them) are initiated by the American
India Foundation (AIF) and are the true
manifestation of its goals to empower
marginalized communities, especially
women, children, and the youth. ‘Conceived
amid the tragic devastation caused by the
Gujarat earthquake in 2001 AIF was born to
meet the need for a philanthropy platform
that would connect the world’s two largest
democracies…for a meaningful participation
in India’s democratic and economic growth.
The American India
Foundation Trust
(AIF)
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