ARM is a Non Government Development Organisation working for the empowerment & sustainable development of deprived village people of North Orissa with emphasis on backward rural Women, Children and Dalit communities. It has been striving steadfastly to establish an alternative and prosperous rural social order so that all people cutting across the barrier of caste, creed, economic condition and gender can have a decent living without any discrimination and inequality. Thanks to the Lord, by way of conducting multifarious activities ARM has already projected itself as the harbinger of grassroots liberty and empowerment of in Coastal North Orissa during the last two decades. ARM has been accredited for desirable norm by Credibility alliance .
GENESIS
Driven by a desire to lead full lives, live as members of a group doing things for themselves, their fellow beings and for the community as well, a handful of academicians, visionaries and professionals of North Balasore at Baliapal dewombed ARM unto the limelight in the 8th of March, 1989. Construed to extend a helping hand to the suffering mass against recurrent vagaries of nature (flood & cyclone ) in the coastal district; the arms of ARM have been engaged since then in the empowerment and mainstreaming of socio-economically marginalized and vulnerable rural sections by viewing development as a process of increasing the personal and institutional capacities of members to mobilize and manage resources to produce sustainable and justly distributed improvement in their quality of life consistent with their own aspirations. Alternative for Rural Movement (ARM) has been registered as a voluntary development organization under the Society Registration Act XXI of 1860, Income Tax Act 12 A & Foreign Contribution Regulation Act 1976 and organized till date over 300 Women Self Help Groups (WSGs) across 100 remote rural villages in 16 Gram Panchayats serving a population of 1, 18,748 (21376 families) of Balasore district in the state of Orissa (India).