What is AID?

Association for India's Development (AID) is voluntary, not-for-profit organization that supports a wide variety of developmental projects such as those contributing towards literacy, health care, access to credit, vocational skill training, women's empowerment and children's welfare. [Powerpoint presentation]

How and why did AID come into being?

AID was initiated in 1991 in the University of Maryland, College Park, by a group of students who shared the belief that India suffers from a variety of interrelated problems and that the solution to these problems requires active collaboration between us all.

About AID Blacksburg

AID Blacksburg was formed by the students of Virginia Tech in January 1998. It is a registered student organization at Virginia Tech. Though initially started as a small chapter, AID Blacksburg has now grown into a full-fledged active chapter.

Designation	Name	Email*
President	Vedavyas Duggirala	vyas
Vice-President	Vidya Rajagopalan	vidyaraj
Secretary	Parthiban Rajasekharan	parthi
Treasurer	Sivasankkar Selvanathan	sselvana
Project Coordinator(s)	Ajit Balagopal, Rajesh Sudarsan	ajitbalagopal† sudarsar
Creativity Coordinator	Arun Natarajan	anat
Public Relations	Pradeep Gopalakrishnan	pradeepg
Webmaster	Rajesh Sudarsan, Chaitanya Chopra	sudarsar,chet
Faculty Advisor	Dr. Dilip Shome	dilip

*Append email with "(at) vt (dot) edu"
†Append email with "(at) yahoo (dot) com"