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CRAPO is a secular and non-profit organization with the mission that no one should face crisis alone and community empowerment is the main tool to overcome and prevent crisis. CRAPO is registered in January, 17, 2003 under society’s registration act 1860 of India after the 2002’s powerful Gujarat Communal Violence. CRAPO is a social action organization and operates over 10 programs and services and provides assistance to low-income families, high-risk youths, and adolescent girls, women in stress and disaster victims to meeting the physical, psychosocial and development needs. Nearly two thousand men, women and children infected with PTSD are registered as disaster victims with our agency and build confidence and peace among communities after the recent communal riots and provided $10000 relief to 2004’s tsunami victims in South India, formed 50 self help developmental groups among low-income based families in North East. CRAPO provides direct client service programs, relief programs, coping mechanism programs, awareness and education program, human right programs, and community outreach.

Right now we have offices in Ahmedabad, Saurastra and North-East India and work out of an additional 10 locations throughout the year. We have one small staff (four in all together at head office), a couple of social workers, advocates and a group of active volunteers for every projects.

CRAPO MANDATE’s to Work in reducing disaster and low income victims including faith groups and people living under stress and improve the quality of their lives. We provide a range of direct services and take an active and professional approach to leadership in service, awareness/education and advocacy. Staff, volunteers and the board of directors are committed to including and assisting people from our target community and are responsive to the dynamic needs generated by disasters and low income.

It also provides inspiration and inculcates a desire in young people to become leaders for the nation tomorrow initially at local level by the means of creativity, peace and human-right, psychosocial care and developmental activities.


Mission of Conflict Relief And Peace Organization
CRAPO believes changes are the elixir of life and this is possible only via community empowerment approaches. CRAPO believes that all people deserve the same rights, including the right to live with dignity and to be treated as equal members of society and the right to develop their basic socio-economic needs fulfilled. Yet these fundamental rights are elusive for many people in post disaster existing crisis in particular and socially neglected areas like low-income families, high-risk youths, adolescent girls and women in stress in general. Without supports from others, a meaningful change can not expect.


Goals of the Organization:
1. To contribute to the ultimate noble goals of peace, national integration, mutual harmony and welfare of the society and also amongst the general public.

2. To concentration upon such major activities which are relevant to conflict prevention, hostility reconciliation, reduce of social evils, elimination of human right violence, post trauma stress care, peace retention and vulnerable communities development any where in India.

3. To approach the competent court/courts to safe guard the rights of the general public and for the public interest from time to time as the society may deem fit and proper.

4. To carry out social researches of conflict prevention, and/or social reconciliation so as to prevail peace in a greater acceptance and to make a conflict free society.

5. To make affiliation or partner for any relevant activities with domestic or foreign NGOs in the connection of program collaboration, participation and ventilate before the funding NGOs for receive grant-in-aid, finance/technical supports to achieving organizational goals.

Organization’s areas of work  »

CRAPO offers a range of services including indigenous community development, health awareness, human right awareness, peace works, resource mobilization social research and emergency relief and rehabilitation.

• Basic human rights (Economical/Education/Emergency/Legal/Shelter).

• Peace and Harmony

• Social research

• Community based conflict resolution

• Mental Health

• Youth Development

Tsunami Relief: The organization has worked in the 26th December 2004’s great tsunami hit coastal localities in southern India in the states of Andhra Pradesh and Tamilnadu. The organization basically working for the fisherman community and alike and provides them emergency relief and trauma counseling in remote four coastal areas in those states.

Youth Development: Through this program we aim to target young people at create enabling environment for peace and development through their capacity building. Sports, picnic, competitions, workshop and innovative ideas are prime activities under this program. Young people through out the glob are requested to join in this forum for sharing cultural diversity.

Peace Initiative: Peace making in-between Hindu and Muslim neighborhoods through the means of open peace-tea-party, street-drama, free health camp, essay writing and other faith based involvement activities through real life support groups for creating human right related awareness and different communities participation non-formally. This program needs more financial assistance and partnership from NGO and individuals.

Human Rights: Women are prime target group of this program. Women empowerment through training on legal aid, exposure trips, workshop, creating enabling environment in gender issues are its main objective. Encourage human right violation prevention activities strongly. Educating youths and religious instructors to spread right-based education and morale of all communities and introduce them with local policymakers, media and volunteerism. This program needs more training.

Community based disaster mitigation: Trainings, meetings to address the burning problems of targeted community and lobbying with local government/authority to enabling community in taking collective decisions related to local issues like: water, road, electricity, education, government compensation to senior citizens/widow/disaster victims and keeps the environment more harmonious. We are in needed more collaborative partners for assistance, exposure and trainings for our volunteers.
Research Works: We are working on suitable treatment for the mental illness and peace building sources of resources papers. However we are also interested to undertake more social research works. We are looking for more sponsors for this program for sustainability.

Mental Health Intervention: We are building supporting group to address community based problems that overwhelm their coping and problem solving abilities. Primary cares are being given for people endure significant stress associated with mental illness or resulting from disaster based traumatic events. Counseling primary treatment and referral of common mental disorders as well as sever mental disorders to local hospitals. Case works and psychotherapy are the way of service of this program. This program needs financial and technical assistance.