Church's Auxiliary for Social Action

Church's Auxiliary for Social Action or CASA (founded in 1947) is a non-religious Indian development organisation and charitable trust based in New Delhi 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 AllianceACT Alliance Members

Mar Aprem Mooken writes,Mar Aprem Mooken, From Relief to Development: A Profile of CASA, Jaffe Books, 1979, p.17.

Genesis The partition of India played a virtual havoc with peoples lives which Jawaharlal Nehru,CASA - About us 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,The National Christian Council Review, Volume 97, Wesley Press, 1977, p.139. 1955, Committee on Relief and Gift Supplies (CORAGS),H. Dwight Swartzendruber, Forty Years of Service Beyond Our Borders, Masthof Press, Morgantown, 2012. Christian Agency for Social Action,Harold C. Fey (Edited), A History of the Ecumenical Movement, Volume 2: 1948-1968, Wipf and Stock, Eugene, 2004, p.228. (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. List of DirectorshipsSomen Das, Mission Redefined' (CASA at 60 - striving towards life in fullness, Appendix C, Leadership of CASA. (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,CASA, Our Approach to Development 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'

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