The ARSA Association was founded in 2014 by journalists, doctors, academics, architects, and humanitarian workers as an independent rights-based CSO.
ARSA is active in fields of social assistance, nonformal education (vocational and language courses for adults and children) and social cohesion activities as well as psychosocial support, protection, translation, counselling and advocacy to support refugees and asylum seekers for basic needs as well as access to rights and services.