Projects

As part of our mission, we are actively working on projects aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Our initial efforts focus on SDG #4: Quality Education, particularly in the context of rural development. We begin by addressing the digital divide in education, ensuring better access to learning opportunities. These initiatives also aim to strengthen local livelihoods and support long-term community growth. Our ongoing projects are described below.

Low-bandwidth Educational Access Platform – LEAP

Through their Eureka Village Centers, AID India provides accessible education operating in 647 villages of Tamil Nadu. AID India relies on online educational content to ensure consistent, high quality education to these villages. However, many of these villages either do not have any internet connectivity or have very low-bandwidth connections, which makes the distribution of the content problematic for them, as they currently rely on video streaming during the classes to multiple devices in the classroom. This situation results in a poor experience for the kids attending the classes. They get impatient when a video does not load fast enough, and many eventually give up.

LEAP offers a solution that performs the video downloads ahead of time and only once for each video. During lectures, the LEAP node (a small single-board computer) serves the contents to the classroom, which does not require internet connectivity anymore. The system is designed to automatically fetch the content for each week ahead of time, and is centrally managed by AID India.

Solar lighting for rural classrooms

This project offers a portable, easy-to-assemble lighting solution for rural classrooms where electricity is limited or unreliable.

Please feel free to reach out for more information about the projects.