MASHAL is a non-governmental organization striving since 1985 to usher in development of thedestitute irrespective of caste, class, sex and religion. It mobilizes and organizes slum dwellersto improve their living conditions. We execute schemes which integrate multidimensional,multilevel, and dynamic understandings of poor people’s livelihoods.

MASHAL also brings together aspirations of poor people with wider sectoral, inter-sectoral, andmacro-economic questions about policies necessary for realization of those aspirations. We havecollaborations with local, national and international organizationsand establishments whethergovernmental agencies or NGOs, working for similar objectives in whatever way found suitablefor the achievement of the objectives to assuage the plight of the downtrodden. Our main focusin this area is on providing basic services and infrastructure to the poor, particularly in slums andinformal peri-urban settlements. It takes up Socio-Economic survey of the slums in order tostudy the socio-economic conditions of the slum dwellers.

MASHAL endeavours for the development of an eco-friendly society and enable the slumdwellers to live in hygienic condition by providing basic amenities, such as drinking water, streetlights, roads, drains, community bathroom, storm water drain and community halls whereverpossible. MASHAL team members are sincere and dedicated to champion the cause of themarginalized and under-privileged in society. We will persistently combat to break out of thevicious circle of urban impoverishment by taking the slum for what it is an urban habitat that hasdeteriorated and must be rehabilitated and organized jointly with the full participation of itsinhabitants. It is now in a long journey towards welfare of the society.