Background

Centre for Advanced Research and Social Action (CARSA), a non-profit, non-political and non-government community based organization, was established in 1995 by a group of renowned educationists, economists, social workers and a small group of young volunteers from the rural areas of southern Bangladesh.

Amis and Objectives

1. Encourage people with innovative ideas in the field of development and create opportunity for them to test their ideas to promote self reliant development models in the country;
2. Make people conscious and aware of their own problems and create in them such spirit as they would be able to solve their own problems;
3. Undertake economic and income generating activities for poverty alleviation;
4. Help improving access to resources for the poor, and provide institutional and other facilities to the physically challenged, mentally retarded and other distressed people;
5. Undertake relief and rehabilitation activities at times natural disaster;
6. Undertake and promote research activities on various aspects of development;
7. Establish and maintain libraries and information services;
8. Create consciousness among people on:
-food security
-health care and sanitation
-family planning
-child and adult education
-habitable and sustainable ecology and environment
9. Undertake sustainable development program for the indigenous people through capacity building;
10.Empower women and increase awareness on gender issues and make opportunities for both women and men to achieve their potential in sustainable human, social and economic development;
11. Increase awareness of the rural people to access local government resources and strengthen local government agencies