A Short Founding History

Context

In the early 90s, some of the close friends of Professor Dr. Abul Hossen Ahmed Kamal thought of forming a social development and research organization. For that purpose, he started the activities of the organization along with his friend Dr. Mahbubullah Dr. Wahid Uddin Mahmud Dr. Salehuddin Ahmed, Mirza Fakhrul Islam Alamgir, MA Malek and Rownak Ahmed. They were associated as founding members of this organization.

But in a village of Madaripur District in Kaliganj thana at Alinagar Union, a bloody clash broke out over a trivial matter and one person was killed in the clash. As a result, it was decided to change the thinking of establishing a social research organization to work to alleviate the poverty of the people in the area and reduce the number of unemployment among the educated youth. Soon thereafter, the Center for Advanced Research and Social Action (CARSA) was formed in 1996 with Professor Dr. Abul Hossain Ahmed Kamal as the founding chairman.

Now, CARSA is a national NGO, has been working in implementing different humanitarian social development projects and microcredit programs in 5 districts, 17upazillas, 124 unions and 674 villages with 19 branch offices including project offices across the country for the last 28 years. The major programs focused on training, microcredit operation, formal and non-formal education, health and nutrition, Water supply and sanitation, Disaster management and climate change, women and child development, food security and livelihood programs.

CARSA received a certificate from the Microcredit Regulatory Authority in 2008 to operate microcredit operations with No 00826-00499-00221.

Since 1998, CARSA has been involved as an affiliate of PKSF. It may be noted that until now CARSA has been operating as a program partner of PKSF.