PRASHANT PANJIAR

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Photography of American India Foundation's (AIF) livelihood, health, education and fellowship programs in India from 2004 to the present.

Women of SHG groups at Chiknibahali village, Bolangir district, Orissa, India, 2006.

Meeting of the Srijan promoted Maitree Dairy project's Parvati Mahila Sankool (cluster) at Badoli village, Tonk district, Rajasthan, India, 2009.

Shahidul Islam, beneficiary of American India Foundation's Rickshaw Sangh program in partnership with Sahara Utsarga Welfare Society, sells vegetables from his rickshaw in villages in Barasat block, North 24 Parganas district, West Bengal, India, 2017.

Women beneficiaries of Jeevan Jyoti Kala Kendra Rickshaw Sangh bring vegetables for sale from their village to Muzaffarpur, Bihar, India, 2013.

Alumni of AIF's MAST program who now work for Big Bazaar in Patna, Bihar, India, 2011.

Artisans at work at Dwarka's centre for Kalamkari in Sri Kalahasti, Andhra Pradesh, India, 2006,

Geeta Devi and Ladi Devi monitor testing at the Maitree Dairy Bulk Chilling Unit in Duni, Tonk district, Rajasthan, India, 2009.

Members of SRIJAN promoted SHG, Shankar Mahila Bachat Sangh, sing songs at the end of a meeting in Nayagaon Gothra village, Tonk district, Rajasthan, India, 2007.

Ramita Rawat and her children who are covered under AIF's MANSI programin Mori block of Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, 2017.

ASHA Monika with pre-mature low-birth weight baby during a home visit in Dariyapur village, Bhagwanpur block, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India, 2018.

Training of Sahiyyas under AIF's Maternal and Newborn Survival Initiative (MANSI) at the Old CS Office in Seraikela, Jharkhand, India, 2014.

Newborn baby in the labour room at the Primary Health Centre at Sakra, Muzaffarpur district, Bihar, India, 2007.

AIF MANSI beneficiariy Balika Mahto's 1-day old child is looked after by a traditional birth attendant Manjura Kalindi in Bordih village, Seraikela district, Jharkhand, India, 2012.

Beneficiaries of AIF's MANSI program receive services during a Village Health Nutrition Day in Altuma village, Keonjhar district, Orissa, 2017.

Sombari Soren, a Sahiya under the MANSI program supported by American India Foundation, takes the temperature of the newborn child of Mukhi Soren in their home in Poradih village, Seraikela district, Jharkhand, India, 2012.

ASHA Poonam with Resham Rajkumar and her low-birth weight twins, Mansi and Manav, in a warm-box at their home in Mundet village, Haridwar district, Uttarakhand, India, 2018.

Trained under AIF's MANSI program, ASHA Usha Rana makes the rounds of her village Himrol in Uttarkashi district, Uttarakhand, India, 2017.

Students shoot video and take photographs with a digital camera under AIF's Digital Equaliser program at the Government Higher Primary School, Munenkolala, Bangalore, India, 2010.

An Expirifun session under AIF's Digital Equaliser program at the Government Inter College in Dhobhighat, Pauri district, Uttarakhand, 2016.

Differently abled students Harshit (right) and Muskaan (centre) in the AIF DE Dell connected classroom at Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust school at Kakardooma, Delhi, India, 2013.

Nishta, a differently abled student, uses her toes to operate a notebook in an AIF DE Dell connected classroom at Amar Jyoti Charitable Trust school at Kakardooma, Delhi, India, 2013.

AIF Fellow, John Simpson, with visually impaired employees at I-Merit Salt Lake City centre in Kolkata, West Bengal, India, 2016.

AIF Fellow, Kaylayn Kibbe, at the YUVA football practise in Ranchi, Jharkand, India, 2015.

AIF Fellow Margy Elliot, working with Calcutta Kids, during a home visit to meet Ajay, a child recovering from malnutrition, and his aunt, Parmila Devi, at their home in Fakirbagan, Salkia, Howrah, West Bengal, 2012.