The Initiative Organization for Rural Development (IORD) is a welfare, non political, non sectarian and non profitable organization. It was established by two friends, quite experienced in administrative, operational and dealing emergency situation passionately & with confidence keeping in view the poor state of living in the rural areas and to improve the living standard of life by providing basic necessities initially in the province of Khyber Puhktoon Khwa but will also work in other provinces as and when required. Both these friends one as Executive Director and the other as Director Operations and their family members as the members of the Executive Board, representing the conscious class of society, decided to take an initiative of providing social services to the deprived masses of the area by addressing the problems like poverty alleviation, management of drinking water, provision of basic education, non existence of health centers, hygiene/sanitation and disaster management etc due to which the people are living below poverty level. IORD is registered under The Society Registration Act – 1860 and was issued Registration No. 7460.