Friends of South Asia (FOSA, established 2001) is a volunteer South Asian American peace activism group based in the San Francisco Bay Area. The group's stated basic mission is to "achieve a peaceful, prosperous, and hate-free South Asia...work through people-to-people contacts, dialog, and other non-violent, non-exclusionary means.".
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