CASA India

Indian Development and Humanitarian Organisation. At the stroke of midnight, on 15th August 1947 India awoke to freedom. The cost of this freedom was phenomenal in terms of loss of property and human lives as a consequence of partition. The exchange of population across borders forced millions to live in alien surroundings and subhuman conditions. In this hour of agony and grief, the then government requested various institutions to initiate a response to minimize the sufferings. National Council of Churches in India responded by forming the NCC Relief Committee as an expression of solidarity with the suffering masses, which later went on to become the CASA - Care Awareness Service Action. Though its initial focus was on providing immediate relief to victims of natural and human induced calamities, CASA has today grown into a premier relief and development organization in the country. Its primary objective today is to strengthen the poor and promote the efforts of marginalized gr...