The annual AID conference is held during the Memorial Day weekend.
All year long we interact with members of other chapters through
email and occasionally by phone. This weekend is the rare exception!
It gives us a chance to put a face to names we come across in
forwarded emails, newsletters and discussion groups.
More importantly, AID conferences are the venues to decide
in which direction AID should move in the coming years and make
decisions that affect AID as a whole. The AID fellow program,
the Saathi program, our decision to support the Hundred Block
Plan and the AID decentralization that is gradually taking place
are some of the results of past conferences.
With talks by well known activists, updates from all the chapters,
review of the overall AID activities, numerous workshops and endless
discussions that last well into the night, an AID conference is
a exhausting but memorable experience.
