Based in Nashik, Disha Foundation has been providing marginalized communities an environment conducive to their sustainable development, to improve the quality of their living arrangements, and to offer them opportunities to become more productive citizens of society. The city is a major destination of seasonal migrants, the fastest growing city in Maharashtra after Mumbai and Pune. The city has historic importance and one of the most popular pilgrimages of India.
Disha Foundation work with inter state migrants in Nashik who arrives from different districts of Maharashtra state including Ahmadnagar, Aurangabad, Nandurbar, Dhule, Akola and Marathawada. As well Foundation works with intra state migrants who arrvies from other states of India specially Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh and Gujarat.