Self Help Group

Undertaking social intermediation

A small group (15 to 20 members), voluntarily formed and related by affinity for specific purpose, it is a group whose members use savings, credit and social involvement as instruments of empowerment

Our Objectives

To collectively bring about the change in socioeconomic status of the poor people especially its members;
To inculcate the habit of savings amongst villagers including village women;
To maintain good inter-personal relationship, linkages with banks & financial institutions and build self-confidence amongst rural community;
To save the villagers from clutches of middle men and touts and arrange for loans;
To develop leadership qualities amongst group members;
To manage and run collective income generating activities/ventures & common activity/commodity based groups;
To improve literacy, general awareness level and right to equality among villagers;
To function as an interface between the extension system and farmers for transfer of technology, sharing of market information etc.;
To interact and exchange ideas on new initiatives.