About Us

The Christian Agency for Rural Development (CARD) is the Social Service wing of the Mar Thoma Syrian Church. CARD was started in 1977 with the object of acting as a development agent for the poor and deprived and to alleviate their miseries. The services of CARD are open to all irrespective of religion,caste,creed,race,ethnicity, or gender CARD is a helping hand to anyone and everyone who deserve it .CARD continues its activities in 7 states of India including Kerala, Tamilnadu, Karnataka, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Odisha, and Uttar Pradesh to reach more than 50000 people with 32 life saving –fighting programmes including maternal and Child health, education, food and clean water, gender equality and women empowerment, HIV/AIDs prevention, climate justice and climate change advocacy, livelihood support and more our programmes becomes a catalyst for positive change .