About Us

Friends for India’s Development and Assistance (FIDA) is a Non Governmental Organization, registered under the Societies Registration Act, 1860. It is a non-profit, non-partisan organization that now comprises of over 30 members from different professions and walks of life.

Vision

FIDA envisions an India that is based on holistic development of its citizens with specific emphasis on development through access to quality education, healthcare, and employment opportunities for needy sections of society.

Mission

FIDA’s mission is two-fold:

• To ensure rural development in an atomistic fashion via the creation of adequate educational infrastructure and access to disadvantaged and isolated rural community members.
• To leverage initial successes in educational efforts into areas of broader development such as healthcare access, nutritional education, increase in employability, women’s rights, and sustainable living.

Purpose

To encourage, develop, fund and implement programs to improve the educational / nutritional / health / medical and overall standard of living of needy children all over India. Through the children, FIDA aims at targeting impoverished families for physical, economic and social empowerment.