Church's Auxiliary for Social Action

Church's Auxiliary for Social Action
Charity
Industry NGO
Founded 1947, India
Headquarters Registered office: New Delhi
Zonal offices: Chennai, Kolkata, Mumbai,
Sector offices: Guwahati, Imphal, Aizawl, Dimapur, Shillong, Bhubaneshwar, Ranchi, Lucknow, Indore, Raipur, Udaipur, Nagapattinam, Cuddalore, Tirunelveli, Alapuzha, Bapatla, Port Blair and Shimla
Key people
 Busi Suneel Bhanu (Chairperson), Sushant Agarwal (Director)
Number of employees
 500
Website

Church's Auxiliary for Social Action or CASA (founded in 1947) is a non-religious Indian development organisation based in Chennai and a service wing of the National Council of Churches in India comprising the Orthodox and Protestant Church Societies in India. CASA is a member of ACT Alliance[1]

Mar Aprem Mooken writes,[2]

Genesis

The partition of India played a virtual havoc with peoples lives which Jawaharlal Nehru,[3] then Prime Minister of India wanted to address and shared it with J. Waskom Pickett and Marshall Russell Reed who involved the National Council of Churches in India (NCCI) to lend a hand in mitigating the suffering of the displaced people for which the NCCI formed an ad hoc Relief Committee. Over the years', the Relief Committee took different names,

  • 1947, Refugee and Famine Relief Committee or Central Relief Committee,[4]
  • 1955, Committee on Relief and Gift Supplies (CORAGS),[5]
  • Christian Agency for Social Action,[6]
  • (present) Church's Auxiliary for Social Action.

Funding

As a development non-religious organisation the activities of CASA are funded through the individuals, the Churches in India, the State, the corporates and a few overseas ecumenical bodies.[3]

List of Directorships[7]

(Period, Name of the Director )

  • 1947-1947 - Dr. E. C. Bhatty
  • 1947-1948 - Dr. E. D. Lucas
  • 1949-1951 - Dr. Donald Ebright
  • 1952-1956 - Dr. Donald Rugh
  • 1956-1957 - Mr. Ranjit Chetsingh
  • 1957-1958 - Rev. Edward Benedict
  • 1958-1961 - Mr. J. S. S. Malelu
  • 1962-1966 - Capt. Alexander Jethro
  • 1966-1971 - Mr. Stephen Mathai
  • 1971-1971 - Mr. Idrak Bhatty
  • 1971-1972 - Mr. H. B. Kadambavanam
  • 1972-1974 - Mr. S. Ponraj
  • 1974-1975 - Mr. T. S. Francis
  • 1975-1977 - Mr. P. C. Joseph
  • 1977-2001 - Maj. J. K. Michael
  • 2001-Present - Dr. Sushant Agrawal

Programmatic interventions

CASA's approach to development could be put in the following way,[8] The Cross Cutting Thematic Areas of CASA’s programmatic interventions are : 1. Humanitarian Aid 2. Development Initiatives to address Structural Poverty 3. Gender Mainstreaming 4. Climate Change 5. Local Capacities for Peace and 'Do No Harm'

References

  1. ↑ ACT Alliance Members
  2. ↑ Mar Aprem Mooken, From Relief to Development: A Profile of CASA, Jaffe Books, 1979, p.17.
  3. 1 2 CASA - About us Archived 2015-10-25 at the Wayback Machine.
  4. ↑ The National Christian Council Review, Volume 97, Wesley Press, 1977, p.139.
  5. ↑ H. Dwight Swartzendruber, Forty Years of Service Beyond Our Borders, Masthof Press, Morgantown, 2012.
  6. ↑ Harold C. Fey (Edited), A History of the Ecumenical Movement, Volume 2: 1948-1968, Wipf and Stock, Eugene, 2004, p.228.
  7. ↑ Somen Das, Mission Redefined' (CASA at 60 - striving towards life in fullness, Appendix C, Leadership of CASA.
  8. ↑ CASA, Our Approach to Development Archived 2015-10-25 at the Wayback Machine.
Further reading
  • Thomas J. Davis (2013). "Religion in Philanthropic Organizations: Family, Friend, Foe?".
  • H. Dwight Swartzendruber (2012). "Forty Years of Service Beyond Our Borders". Masthof Press.
  • Somen Das (2008). "Mission Redefined' (CASA at 60 - striving towards life in fullness".
  • Damon P. Coppola (2007). "Introduction to International Disaster Management".
  • Terry Brown (2006). "Other Voices Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality".
  • Erwin Fahlbusch (1999). "The Encyclopedia of Christianity,". 2.
  • Church's Auxiliary for Social Action (1997). "From Despair to Hope: 50 Years of CASA".
  • Government of India (1987). "Encyclopaedia of social work in India". 4.
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