In collaboration with grassroot NGOs and government agencies, AIF has been successfully running several projects related to education, livelihood, and public health, with emphases on elementary education, women’s empowerment, and HIV/AIDS, respectively. I understand that AIF has so far reached out to more than 1.7 million of India’s less fortunate and successfully transformed their lives by providing them a sustainable means of livelihood.
Though on a standalone basis, number of lives touched by AIF is very impressive, it simply dwarfs in comparison to the sheer enormity of the challenge that we, as a nation, face i.e. of reaching out to a population of 1.2 billion.