India Evangelistic Association is an indigenous, non -denominational non-profit, non-political faith ministry and social service organization. IEA is interested to building an integrated community developed through multifarious spiritual and social service activities like Church Planting and Development, Health and Education, Childcare, Women Empowerment, Prayer Mobilization, Evangelistic Media, Seminar and Conferences and Emergency Relief. It particularly focuses its socio economic developments in Orissa State keeping in mind that eastern India region is the economically poor in India.
IEA is a reality of the vision that the Lord has laid upon the heart of the founder and director in the year 1969. This establishment was born as a result of the vision of Rev. Dr. Pran Ranjan Parichha to initiate community development in Orissa and other backward parts of North India. As on today IEA has become one of the largest indigenous missions in Orissa.
India Evangelistic Association was founded in 1984 and registered with the Government of Orissa (INDIA). IEA also has been registered with the Home Ministry, Government of India under FCRA. It is also registered with the Commissioner of Income Tax under sections 12A & 80G of the Income Tax Act for tax exemption of donors.
INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION (IEA) completing almost two and a half decades in bringing up the most deserving sections of the society to have better standard of living and enhanced quality of life. INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION has been extending its critical facilitation services in the areas of community based health care services, child healthcare, and life skill education for adolescent girls, prevention of child labor, such as Rural livelihoods promotion with gender and social equity focus, Watershed development programme, emergency relief and rehabilitation Programmes, prevention of HIV/AIDS and sex workers empowerment, Education and rehabilitation of children with disabilities, mitigation and management, Rights advocacy and lobbying for rural women and empowerment.
IEA has gained tremendous experience while working with the grass root level communities in providing need- based services to all its target groups. INDIA EVANGELISTIC ASSOCIATION (IEA) has been facilitating the process of change at multiple levels to bring a lasting impact on social and economic status of the poor and socially backward families. IEA continues to grow with more people and programs with its objective to impact wider section of people and communities.
Economic condition: Orissa is economically a poorest State in India. For decades western Orissa is severely suffering from drought. Added to it the Super Cyclone that hit coastal area on 29/30 October, 1999, the entire coastal area covering a length of 600 KM was almost wiped out. Tens and thousands of both human and animal lives have perished. Millions of rupees of properties and crops got damaged. While slowly recovering from the awful damage of the Super Cyclone, the recent Super Flood during the Month of August 2007 hit the entire State breaking its economical and infrastructural backbone again. Every now and then Newspapers have been reporting starvation deaths in certain areas of the State for the past decade or so. About 47% of the total population lives under poverty line.
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