Voluntary Health Association Of Punjab

About us

Voluntary Health Association of Punjab (VHAP) established in 1993 and got registered is a non-profit organization. VHAP is also registered with the Union Ministry of Home, Govt of India under the Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA) 1976. Donations to VHAP are exempt under Section 80G of Income Tax Act also. It is affiliated to the Voluntary Health Association of India (VHAI) New Delhi. It is a right based organization with its head office at Chandigarh, India. The organization is working on various diverse issues of public interest, society interest at large aiming at multi-fold development at the grassroots, state, regional, national & international level with health and development agenda as its mission.

Since its inception, it has been working in the northern region of India i.e. Punjab, Haryana, Chandigarh U.T., Himachal Pradesh and Jammu & Kashmir. VHAP has its stretches in Health and development related issues such as poverty, poor local self governance, illiteracy, ignorance, social injustice, gender discrimination and prominently among them are reproductive and child health care, declining sex ratio, Health & Sanitation, Targeted Intervention Programme of HIV/AIDS, development and Empowerment of Women, Menace of health hazards from consumption of Tobacco. Apart from this VHAP is also engaged on the issues of BBBP, Governance, gender budgeting, SBM bringing out lots of publications in Punjabi (local language) and English both. VHAP is also a parts of various committees set up by the government.