Our History

EFICOR was formed in 1967 in response to a drought in the state of Bihar, resulting in a severe famine. It was initially called the Evangelical Fellowship of India Committee on Emergency Relief (EFICER). Since then, the past fifty-eight years have been a journey of transformation.

In 1971, India was flooded with refugees from neighbouring East Pakistan (now Bangladesh). The international community wanted a local agency through which they could act; EFICOR was requested to be the channel. The next major involvement was another disaster situation – the Andhra Pradesh cyclone in 1977. The creation of the Training Unit in 1979 was a major step towards developing an identity for EFICOR. In 1980, The Evangelical Fellowship of India Commission on Relief (EFICOR) was registered as a separate Society having its own legal identity. Over the years that followed, EFICOR transitioned from relief to development, and from resourcing to capacity building. The story of change is seen at the Community and organisational levels within EFICOR.