Financial Year 2024-25 witnessed extraordinary operational scaling for ANCD Out of the Dark Organization. Total receipts surged to ₹31,70,389, driven by member contributions and expanded project assignments, enabling multi-fold expansion in healthcare relief, computer education, and disability assistance across Odisha and partner project sites in other states.

Aditya Narayan Dash

Founder & Managing Director (DIN: 09704453)

"FY 2024-25 has been a watershed year. Our expansion from ₹3.74 Lakhs to ₹31.70 Lakhs in total receipts reflects the immense faith our members, communities, and project partners place in our direct-action execution model."

Respected Donors, Partners, and Community Members,

It is with immense humility and pride that I present the Annual Activity Report for FY 2024-25. This fiscal year marked a major leap forward in our organization's trajectory. Through the collective dedication of our members, supporters, and field workers, our total receipts increased by over 850% to reach ₹31,70,389.

More importantly, this financial scaling translated directly into field impact: ₹21,51,617 was deployed for Education & Skill Training programs, ₹7,58,478 for Medical Relief & Mobile Health Services, and ₹2,29,900 for Food Donation & Maternal Relief Kits. Every rupee was channeled into verifiable field interventions, delivered by our own team as the on-ground execution partner for projects assigned through our network partner IRDP and allied corporate CSR sponsors.

We partnered with ALIMCO to distribute assistive devices to Divyangjan, operated an LIC-donated Mobile Health Van reaching isolated coastal hamlets in Puri district, expanded computer literacy labs for youth, and supported hundreds of women through SHG and livelihood-awareness programs — work that took our field teams across Odisha and into project sites in Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh.

I extend my profound thanks to our Board, staff, volunteers, CA Sahoo Biswojit & Associates, and all our corporate and institutional partners who continue to stand shoulder-to-shoulder with us as we bring real light into people's lives.

Chandana Dash

Director (DIN: 09704454)

"Our field expansion in healthcare and women's skill centres in FY 2024-25 has proved that sustainable development happens when local women lead community action."

Dear Friends and Supporters,

Financial Year 2024-25 brought unprecedented opportunities for our field teams. As Director overseeing gender empowerment and health camps, I am thrilled to report that our field operations touched the lives of thousands of beneficiaries across our project sites this year.

Our healthcare camps and LIC-donated Mobile Health Van distributed vital medicines (₹7.58 Lakhs budget), providing free consultations, diagnostic screenings, and maternal care kits to families in remote coastal villages of Puri district. At the same time, our computer skill centres (₹21.51 Lakhs budget) trained over 1,800 young women and men in IT fundamentals and digital literacy.

Furthermore, our joint camps with ALIMCO provided customised tricycles, wheelchairs, and hearing aids to Divyangjan beneficiaries, restoring independence and dignity to marginalised families.

My deepest gratitude goes to our tireless women SHG leaders and volunteers whose passion keeps our mission vibrant every day.

Financial Year 2024-25 established ANCD Out of the Dark Organization as a fast-growing field execution partner for community development. Receipts expanded 8.5x from ₹3,74,717 in FY 2023-24 to ₹31,70,389 in FY 2024-25.

ANCD's Mobile Health Van, donated by LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation, deployed for rural healthcare in Puri district, Odisha (FY 2024-25)

CORE OPERATIONAL PILLARS

ANCD Out of the Dark Organization is legally registered under Section 8 of the Companies Act, 2013, with corporate compliance oversight by the Registrar of Companies (ROC), Ministry of Corporate Affairs, Government of India.

The management and governance of the organization are driven by dedicated directors who serve without managerial compensation, reinforcing non-profit integrity.

Aditya Narayan Dash

Managing Director | DIN: 09704453

Holds 990 Equity Shares (99%). Oversees strategic expansion, partner relations, financial oversight, and program governance.

Chandana Dash

Director | DIN: 09704454

Holds 10 Equity Shares (1%). Leads field operations, Mobile Health Van logistics, women SHG networks, and community relations.

ANCD Out of the Dark Organization remains registered and headquartered in Puri district, Odisha. In FY 2024-25 our role as field execution and program management partner for CSR-funded projects — commissioned through our network partner IRDP and allied corporate sponsors — expanded our delivery footprint further across Odisha and into additional project states.

CORE ODISHA FIELD HUB

Head Office: Balidokan, Konark, Puri, Odisha (Pin: 752111).

Odisha Delivery: Mobile Health Van operations, medical camps, and free medicine distribution across Puri district and Bhubaneswar.

MULTI-STATE EXECUTION FOOTPRINT (FY 2024-25)

Education, livelihood, agri-tech, and disability-aid project sites extended our field presence into Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh, delivered on behalf of CSR partners including RITES Limited, BSES Rajdhani Power Limited, NCRTC, and HINCOL.

Odisha registered headquarters, with field execution extending to Delhi-NCR and Uttar Pradesh

Impact Dashboard: Measuring our FY 2024-25 field outputs against United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

Education & IT Training was ANCD's largest program investment in FY 2024-25, with ₹21,51,617 deployed to run computer labs, vocational workshops, and intellectual-property awareness sessions across our project locations.

Student computer lab and digital-literacy session

MS-CIT certified vocational computer training centre

Dedicated computer labs give first-time learners structured, hands-on practice — from basic typing to MS Office proficiency — building the baseline digital fluency increasingly required for everyday work and study.

Practical computer-literacy session for rural youth

Student cohort practising typing and document formatting

ANCD resource persons continued delivering Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) awareness sessions in schools and colleges in FY 2024-25, building on the previous year's work to expand legal literacy among students.

Intellectual Property awareness session for college students

Classroom discussion on patents, copyrights and trademarks

Beyond core computer literacy, vocational workshops introduce job-oriented skills — from spreadsheet-based record-keeping to basic digital design — giving trainees a practical edge when seeking entry-level employment.

Vocational skill workshop session for youth trainees

Trainees working through a practical workshop exercise

Across computer labs, IP-awareness sessions, and vocational workshops, the Education & IT Training program reached over 1,800 youth and adults in FY 2024-25 — a more than fourfold increase in reach over the previous year.

Certificate distribution at the close of a training cohort

Trainees and ANCD facilitators following a completed module

The Medical Relief & Assistance Program expanded significantly in FY 2024-25, with ₹7,58,478 deployed for our Mobile Health Van, free check-up camps, and medicine distribution — concentrated in and around Puri district, Odisha.

Free medical check-up camp organized by IRDP, Puri district, Odisha

ANCD's Mobile Health Van, donated by LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation

Donated by the LIC Golden Jubilee Foundation and operated by ANCD under IRDP, the Mobile Health Van brings a doctor and basic diagnostics directly to villages that would otherwise require a long and costly journey to the nearest clinic.

Mobile Health Van parked at a village health outreach stop, Konark, Puri

Mobile Health Van branding showing IRDP, Konark, Puri, Odisha

Scheduled check-up camps provide blood-pressure monitoring, blood-sugar testing, and general consultation at no cost, reducing the financial and logistical barriers that keep many rural families away from routine healthcare.

Community members undergoing free health screening

Doctor consultation in progress at a field medical camp

Following diagnosis, essential medicines are dispensed free of cost directly at the camp or van stop, removing the financial barrier that often prevents follow-through on a doctor's prescription.

Free medicine distribution at a community health camp

Volunteers dispensing prescribed medicines to patients

Health camps and Mobile Health Van outreach together screened and treated a large number of patients across Puri district and Bhubaneswar in FY 2024-25. ANCD plans to increase van frequency and add new village stops in FY 2025-26.

Community members gathered at the close of a health camp

Volunteers and visiting medical staff following a completed camp

Scaling women's financial independence through Self-Help Group (SHG) micro-enterprises, vocational tailoring, and public livelihood-awareness engagement remained a core focus in FY 2024-25.

Women's tailoring and garment-making skill session

SHG cluster meeting and financial-inclusion discussion

New and existing Self-Help Groups were supported with sewing machines, raw materials, and guided bookkeeping practice, strengthening each group's ability to manage its own savings and micro-enterprise fund.

SHG members reviewing group savings records

SHG leadership and financial-literacy session

Hands-on tailoring and handicraft training continued to be the most requested vocational track, giving women marketable stitching and craft skills they can convert into supplementary household income.

Tailoring training session for SHG members

Handicraft production unit supported under the program

ANCD's field team supported a public awareness programme on women's mobility and access to transport, run in partnership with infrastructure-sector CSR sponsors and development-finance institutions.

"Empowering women through mobility & transportation" community awareness programme, Ghaziabad

Community engagement session on women's access to public transport

Across SHG support, vocational training, and public-awareness engagement, the Women Empowerment program reached a growing number of women in FY 2024-25, with several SHG clusters now operating self-sufficient micro-enterprises.

SHG members at the close of a training and support session

Women participants following a community outreach programme

The Food Donation & Maternal Relief Program deployed ₹2,29,900 during FY 2024-25, providing nutrition kits to expectant mothers and dry-ration support to vulnerable families through CSR-partner-funded distribution camps.

Maternal relief kit handover at a community distribution camp

Community food relief distribution to vulnerable families

Maternal-care kits were distributed to expectant and nursing mothers at dedicated community camps organized with corporate CSR partner support, building on the kit-distribution work begun the previous year.

Maternal care kit distribution under a BSES Rajdhani Power Limited CSR initiative, organized by IRDP

Expectant mother receiving a maternal relief kit

Dry-ration kits reached families facing seasonal or situational hardship, giving households a short-term buffer against food insecurity while longer-term livelihood support (SHG, vocational training) takes effect.

Dry-ration kit distribution to a beneficiary family

Volunteers preparing relief kits ahead of a distribution camp

Distribution camps are organized as structured, documented events — each beneficiary registered, each kit handed over on record — supporting transparent reporting back to funding CSR partners.

Beneficiary registration at a community relief-kit distribution camp

Kit handover moment at a distribution event

Maternal kit and dry-ration distribution together reached a significant number of families in FY 2024-25. ANCD aims to formalise a regular distribution calendar in FY 2025-26 as project assignments continue to grow.

A beneficiary family at the close of a relief-kit distribution camp

Field team following a completed distribution drive

This program combines highway green-belt landscaping maintenance (₹15,800 budget) with continued agri-tech and hydroponics training for smallholder farmers, both delivered under corporate CSR partnership.

Highway green-belt landscaping maintenance, a CSR initiative of Hindustan Colas Pvt. Ltd. (HINCOL), NHAI land

Farmer hydroponics training session supported under NCRTC CSR partnership

ANCD's field crew continued regular roadside vegetation management and green-belt upkeep under the CSR initiative supported by Hindustan Colas Pvt. Ltd. (HINCOL) on National Highways Authority of India land.

Field crew carrying out roadside green-belt maintenance, HINCOL CSR initiative

Vegetation clearance and debris collection along an assigned highway stretch

Continuing work begun in FY 2023-24, hydroponic demonstration units and farmer-training workshops introduced more smallholder farmers to soil-less, water-efficient cultivation methods under NCRTC's CSR programme.

Hydroponic vegetable cultivation demonstration for farmer trainees

Farmer skill-training workshop on modern cultivation techniques

Partnering with ALIMCO (Artificial Limbs Manufacturing Corporation of India), ANCD's field team distributed customised wheelchairs, tricycles, hearing aids, and walking supports to Divyangjan beneficiaries at dedicated distribution camps.

Beneficiary receiving ALIMCO assistive devices — walker and mobility aids — at a distribution camp

ALIMCO assistive-device distribution event in progress

Devices distributed at these camps — wheelchairs, tricycles, and walking frames — go directly to beneficiaries identified in coordination with local welfare networks, restoring everyday mobility and independence.

Beneficiary with a newly received mobility aid at an ALIMCO camp

ALIMCO assistive devices ready for distribution

Alongside ALIMCO camps, ANCD continued supporting social-inclusion work for transgender community members — public rights-awareness engagement, documentation assistance, and referral linkages to welfare and health services.

Transgender community rights-advocacy and welfare-facilitation engagement

Beneficiary and family at an ALIMCO assistive-device camp

ANCD operates a free drinking-water distribution point in Balidokan, Konark, Puri district under the IRDP banner, offering clean drinking water to residents and passers-by at no cost — a small but consistent public-health service.

Free drinking-water distribution point, organized by IRDP at Balidokan, Konark, Puri, Odisha

Volunteers serving drinking water to community members

The water stall is staffed daily by ANCD volunteers, who serve chilled drinking water to elderly residents, daily-wage workers, and travellers passing through the Balidokan market area.

Elderly resident being served drinking water at the IRDP water stall

Volunteers managing the water stall during peak hours

The water stall has become a familiar, trusted fixture in the Balidokan market area, with repeat visitors and positive word-of-mouth helping sustain daily footfall at the service point.

Community members at the free drinking-water stall

Volunteers refilling water containers at the stall

The Community Water Security Program has run continuously through FY 2024-25 at Balidokan, Konark. ANCD is assessing whether to add a second stall location as project resources allow in FY 2025-26.

Community members gathered near the drinking-water service point

The IRDP-branded free water-distribution stall at Balidokan, Puri

BALANCE SHEET AS AT 31ST MARCH 2025 (Amount in ₹)

INCOME & EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT FOR THE YEAR ENDED 31ST MARCH 2025 (Amount in ₹)

NOTES FORMING PART OF BALANCE SHEET & INCOME EXPENDITURE ACCOUNT (31.03.2025)

Financial Analytics Dashboard for FY 2024-25 displaying program expenditure distribution (99.9% direct field spend).

Financial Growth Bar Visual: Scaling from FY 2023-24 to FY 2024-25.

3-Year Comparative Performance Snapshot (FY 2022-23 to FY 2024-25).

Press clippings and regional newspaper reports highlighting our health camps, relief-kit distribution, and skill-training programs during FY 2024-25.

Local newspaper coverage of a community health camp organized by IRDP, implemented by ANCD's field team (Page 51)

Press clippings and regional newspaper reports highlighting our health camps, relief-kit distribution, and skill-training programs during FY 2024-25.

Local newspaper coverage of a community health camp organized by IRDP, implemented by ANCD's field team (Page 52)

Press clippings and regional newspaper reports highlighting our health camps, relief-kit distribution, and skill-training programs during FY 2024-25.

Local newspaper coverage of a community health camp organized by IRDP, implemented by ANCD's field team (Page 53)

Photographic field essay capturing grassroots operations, the Mobile Health Van, computer training, and disability assistance camps during FY 2024-25.

Free health check-up camp

Mobile Health Van outreach stop

Medicine distribution to patients

Community health screening session

Photographic field essay capturing grassroots operations, the Mobile Health Van, computer training, and disability assistance camps during FY 2024-25.

Computer lab training session

IP awareness lecture for students

Vocational skill workshop

Certificate distribution at a training batch

Photographic field essay capturing grassroots operations, the Mobile Health Van, computer training, and disability assistance camps during FY 2024-25.

Beneficiary receiving an ALIMCO mobility aid

ALIMCO distribution camp in progress

Beneficiary with newly fitted device

Devices ready for distribution

Photographic field essay capturing grassroots operations, the Mobile Health Van, computer training, and disability assistance camps during FY 2024-25.

SHG cluster meeting

Vocational tailoring training

Mobility & livelihood awareness session

Women participants at a community program

Voices of Impact: Real stories of transformation from our FY 2024-25 beneficiaries.

Strategic Vision 2030: Roadmap for institutional scaling and multi-state impact expansion.