ANNUAL REPORT 2020-21

In our 20th year, as we head into our third decade of service, reflective of our new realities and faced by global challenges at an unprecedented level, the need to double down efforts to reach the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 becomes more pressing. Recognizing the power of synergy between the US and India and the role that these two nations can play collectively on this front, AIF championed multi-stakeholder collaborations. Reinforcing the ecosystem towards holistic and collective action, we impacted 1.7 million Indians at the margins of the society through our work in Health, Education, and Livelihoods, this year.

Strengthening Learning Outcomes for Children of Migrant Communities

LAMP works in geographies prone to a very high level of distress migration, to ensure that children from migrating communities are retained in schools. In a multiplier effect, there are significant improvements in learning outcomes and progressive participation of the key stakeholders – parents, teachers, school principals, school management committees, representatives of PRIs and youth volunteers.

This independent evaluation of LAMP’s interventions in Odisha establishes positive changes in the learning achievements of children in mathematics (2.89 times), science (2.63 times), and language (1.3 times). Further, the study also found students from Grades 1 & 2 to be more “school-ready”, which means they were better prepared to deal with new school and classroom environment.

AIF COVID-19 Response

In the last 23 months, since the first outbreak, the American India Foundation has mounted one of the largest relief responses in its history, to help close to 4 million people fight the health, economic, and social impact of COVID-19. Our efforts focus on critical areas of saving lives, fighting systemic shortfalls, bourgeoning poverty, and inequality for the poor and vulnerable, supporting job creation, and rebuilding in better ways.