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{{Infobox company | name = Church's Auxiliary for Social Action
| type = [[Charitable trust|Charity]]
| logo =
| foundation = 1947, India
| location= '''Registered office:''' [[New Delhi]]<br />'''Zonal offices:''' [[Chennai]], [[Kolkata]], [[Mumbai]],<br />'''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)
| industry = [[NGO]]
| revenue =
| num_employees = 500
| homepage = [http://casa-india.org/pages/home.html]
}}
'''Church's Auxiliary for Social Action''' or '''CASA''' (founded in 1947) is a non-religious Indian development organisation based in [[New Delhi]] and a service wing of the [[National Council of Churches in India]] comprising the [[Orthodox Christianity|Orthodox]] and [[Protestant]] Church Societies in [[India]]. CASA is a member of ACT Alliance<ref>[http://www.actalliance.org/about/members/churchs-auxiliary-for-social-action-casa/ ACT Alliance Members]</ref>

[[Mar Aprem Mooken]] writes,<ref>[[Mar Aprem Mooken]], ''From Relief to Development: A Profile of CASA'',
Jaffe Books, 1979, p.17. [https://books.google.com/books?id=5m4EAAAAMAAJ&q=NCCI+jawaharlal+nehru&dq=NCCI+jawaharlal+nehru&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAWoVChMIg-yz4P35yAIVwqWUCh2bLAZG]</ref> {{cquote|Jawaharlal Nehru, the Prime Minister of India at the time of partition, asked the Christian community to assist in the work among the refugees, which the community readily responded through the National Council of Churches in India.}}

==Genesis==
The [[partition of India]] played a virtual havoc with peoples lives which [[Jawaharlal Nehru]],<ref name="About">[http://casa-india.org/pages/about-us/about-casa.html ''CASA - About us''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025062930/http://casa-india.org/pages/about-us/about-casa.html |date=2015-10-25 }}</ref> 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,<ref>''The National Christian Council Review'', Volume 97, Wesley Press, 1977, p.139. [https://books.google.com/books?id=rfnYAAAAMAAJ&q=committee+on+relief+and+gift+supplies&dq=committee+on+relief+and+gift+supplies&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CC4Q6AEwBGoVChMIvbq--fn5yAIVASmUCh3oVgFf]</ref>
* 1955, Committee on Relief and Gift Supplies (CORAGS),<ref>H. Dwight Swartzendruber, ''Forty Years of Service Beyond Our Borders'', Masthof Press, Morgantown, 2012. [https://books.google.com/books?id=9MKLBQAAQBAJ&pg=PA64&dq=malelu+bombay&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCAQ6AEwAWoVChMI8bXCtdr5yAIVBaSUCh3Qkwbb#v=onepage&q=malelu&f=false]</ref>
* Christian Agency for Social Action,<ref>Harold C. Fey (Edited), ''A History of the Ecumenical Movement'', Volume 2: 1948-1968, Wipf and Stock, Eugene, 2004, p.228. [https://books.google.com/books?id=BkNMAwAAQBAJ&lpg=PA228&dq=committee%20on%20relief%20and%20gift%20supplies&pg=PR3#v=onepage&q=committee%20on%20relief%20and%20gift%20supplies&f=false]</ref>
* (present) Church's Auxiliary for Social Action.

==Funding==
As a [[Human development (humanity)|development]] non-religious organisation the activities of CASA are funded through the [[individuals]], the [[Christian Church|Church]]es in India, the [[State (polity)|State]], the [[corporates]] and a few overseas [[ecumenical]] bodies.<ref name="About"/>
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! style="background:#ccc;"| List of Directorships<ref>[[Somen Das]], ''Mission Redefined' (CASA at 60 - striving towards life in fullness'', Appendix C, ''Leadership of CASA.'' [http://casa-india.org/pages/download/doc_download/16-mission-redefined-casa-at-60-abridged-version-i-a-ii.html]{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}</ref>
(Period, Name of the Director )
|-
| style="text-align: left;" |
* 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,<ref>[http://casa-india.org/pages/about-us/our-approach-to-development.html CASA, ''Our Approach to Development''] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151025062358/http://casa-india.org/pages/about-us/our-approach-to-development.html |date=2015-10-25 }}</ref>
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 ==
{{Reflist|2}}
;Further reading
* {{cite book
| author=Thomas J. Davis
| title=Religion in Philanthropic Organizations: Family, Friend, Foe?
| year=2013
| volume=
| isbn=9780253009975
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=aUhKAAAAQBAJ&q=church%27s+auxiliary+for+social+action&pg=PA220
}}
* {{cite book
| author=H. Dwight Swartzendruber
| title=Forty Years of Service Beyond Our Borders
| year=2012
| volume=
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=9MKLBQAAQBAJ&q=malelu&pg=PA64
| publisher=Masthof Press
| isbn=9781601263636
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=Somen Das
| author-link=Somen Das
| title=''Mission Redefined' (CASA at 60 - striving towards life in fullness''
| year=2008
| volume=
| issue=
| url=http://casa-india.org/pages/download/doc_download/16-mission-redefined-casa-at-60-abridged-version-i-a-ii.html
}}{{dead link|date=August 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}
* {{cite book
| author=Damon P. Coppola
| title=Introduction to International Disaster Management
| year=2007
| volume=
| isbn=9780080465739
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=s6oxEraqWWwC&q=church%27s+auxiliary+for+social+action&pg=PP1
}}
* {{cite book
| author=Terry Brown
| title=Other Voices Other Worlds: The Global Church Speaks Out on Homosexuality
| year=2006
| volume=
| isbn=9780898697933
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=6artAQAAQBAJ&q=church%27s+auxiliary+for+social+action&pg=PR4
}}
* {{cite book
| author=Erwin Fahlbusch
| title=The Encyclopedia of Christianity
| year=1999
| volume=2
| isbn=9789004116955
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=yaecVMhMWaEC&q=church%27s+auxiliary+for+social+action&pg=PA688
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=Church's Auxiliary for Social Action
| title=''From Despair to Hope: 50 Years of CASA''
| year=1997
| volume=
| issue=
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=cYz9tgAACAAJ&q=church%27s+auxiliary+for+social+action
}}
* {{cite journal
| author=Government of India
| author-link=Government of India
| title=Encyclopaedia of social work in India
| year=1987
| volume=4
| issue=
| url =https://books.google.com/books?id=QgoiAAAAMAAJ&q=church%27s+auxiliary+for+social+action
}}
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[[Category:Organizations established in 1947]]
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[[Category:Affiliated institutions of the National Council of Churches in India]]
[[Category:1947 establishments in India]]

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