 Through a network of 665 civil society organizations, it covered almost 20,000 villages in 94 districts in 6 Indian states.PACS received over $25 million funding from the UK’s Department for Internal Development (DFID).In addition to raising public awareness about the plight of poor Indians, PACS distributed food and ration cards to impoverished families, helped to set up a variety of social welfare programs (such as pension programs for retirees and widows, programs to help the disabled, scholarship programs, etc.)