“Dishan Development Society” known as “DiSHAN” Came in to existence in the year 2005 with the effort of only 6 like-minded educated man & women of Bhubannagar village under kakdwip Block of south 24 pgs district, West Bengal, India to ameliorate the suffering of the people, especially disadvantaged group and communities of area. The KDDS is located in the coastal area of Bay of Bengal. Since its inception it has taken various community development programs with the active participation of the referral people. The organization has been working for the spiritual & economic empowerment of the weaker section of the community mostly with the women by their active participation in the development endeavor.

From the very name of the organization –“Kakdwip Dishan development Society” known as DiSHAN it is course primarily by the women, we are also with the depressed and destitute people belongs to weaker section of the society including SC/ST/OBC/Minority as well as drop outs from school and adolescent boys and girls for whom hardly any one brothers .

Organization changed its focus from mere welfare to sustainable development of the people through participatory process. To galvanize this process of people’s participatory planning and action , it was Society for Participatory Action and Reflection , a Kolkata based national level organization who are pioneer of this process in Eastern part of India , who first extended their support both in terms of conceptual and financial which helped our organization to make a strong footings in our reference area . We are very much concerned on the eradication of poverty, livelihood security, improved health care especially for the reproductive, child health, education, Child right, mother & child health care, Vocational training, water harvesting environment conservation. Hence, our development activities based on the socio-economic development of underprivileged rural women through access to credit, capacity development, savings mobilization, institution building and awareness rising. Although DiSHAN basically based on the main principle of causing socio-economic empowerment of the poor. Various technical and funding agencies, both Government and Non-Government have extended their cooperation and support in terms of capacity building and finance for implementation of various activities undertaken by DiSHAN