The article discusses International Social Service (ISS) in context of India. ISS is a voluntary non-sectarian social welfare agency with headquarters in Geneva, Switzerland. It has many branches and correspondents throughout the world, including India. In each country, ISS gives individualized services, and works closely with existing social welfare and health agencies, courts, schools and public and private institutions interested in the welfare of the family. The main focus of the organization is on the families and individuals served, with respect for the individual and in accordance with generally accepted principles of casework practice. ISS was created in 1921 at the end of the First World War, when this disastrous war left many families without a home, and when very often the bread-winner disappeared, and many people had to move from the country of origin to other places to try and find a living. In India, the ISS was started in 1952, after the International Conference of Social Work at Madras.