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Our
Vision America,
with its vision of opportunity, equality, and
freedom, has always been a nation for immigrants.
Yet, the promise of equality on paper has not been
a guarantee of social acceptance or political
freedoms to many Americans.
America is really an ideal; the struggle for the
India Abroad Center for Political Awareness (IACPA)
is to make America and Americans realize that ideal
- to make America not only tolerate diversity, but
to value it as a source of American strength.
Not long ago, it was imagined that children grew
up dreaming that they could one day become
President of the United States. This wasn't
everyone's dream, however; girls and minorities
alike understood that their gender, race, religion,
national origin, skin color, and other factors
would impede their ability to realize this same
dream. IACPA envisions a world where all children
can believe that they can grow up to become the
President of the United States of America.
Our Mission
Our mission is to increase awareness in the Indian American community and encourage
participation by the Indian American community in the American democracy.
Our
History The India Abroad Center for Political Awareness was
founded in 1994 by the publishers of
India
Abroad, the largest circulating Indian
American newspaper in the United States.
In the fall of 1996, the Center established a
full-time office in the nation's capitol to expand
and enhance its activities, becoming one of the
only professionally staffed Indian American
organizations serving the community nationwide.
With the establishment of a full-time office,
the Center discovered that there were many policy
issues of vital interest to the community that were
left unanswered because there was no one to provide
voice for the community.
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Placed 85 students in Congressional offices as interns in
the past six years.
