From the Field: Touching Lives: Interventions of VOSARD Jose Antony1 Introduction

Abstract

Voluntary Organisation for Social Action and Rural Development (VOSARD) was founded in1998 with the objective of transforming the lives of the poor, marginalised and the under-privilegedpeople in the most backward and remote hilly areas of Idukki district of the Western Ghats regionin Kerala. It is a registered Charitable Organisation under Travancore Kochi Cultural, Scientific,Charitable Societies Registration Act of 1955 and functioning under the aegis of the Carmelites ofMary Immaculate (CMI) Congregation of the Catholic Church. Since the beginning.