"ASHA" is a rural based registered voluntary organisation founded on 21st June 1988 having non-profit making, apolitical, Secular and non-sectarian characteristics with autonomous and interdisciplinary nature.

After one and half decade of grass root level praxis with other Indian vulnerable massess, ASHA means " the hope " has emerged for the restoration of new hopes in the hearts of the deprived and marginalised millions who have been victims of the existing socio-ecconomic, cultural, environmental and political condtions of the contemporary society. It strives for the creation of a more equitable, peaceful, sustainable and harmonious living environment for all

In Order to achieve this goal, a group of young people spearheaded by Mr. Raghunath deliberately initiated a series of participatory community action programmes in proximity with the under privileged sections in various remote regions of India and more intensively in different parts of Orissa since 1975. While promoting action programmes, they internalised the matrix of the multidimensional facets of the problems of women, children, tribals, rural poor and other backward communities that sensibly conceptualised the perceptional clarity among them about the real causes of poverty, polarisation and degraded living environment of the poor masses.

This kind of societal internalised understanding led them to be more and more committed and critical which has inspired them for resuming towards an unending endeavour. Finally visualising the present local as well as global situation and legalisation, it was considered to create "ASHA" on the 21st day of June 1988 in order to set in motion the process of sustainable community development Programmes in an organised way. ASHA is " the hope " both for the hopeless and have-nots.

Legal Status : Registered under ISR Act of 1860
bearingregistration No. - Dhenkanal 1703 / 46 of 1988 -89 dated 21.06.1988
Also registered under Income Tax exemption Act 12 A and FCRA in 1991

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