Community mobilisation and capacity building is one of our key strategies to empower target beneficiaries. VOSARD promote the establishment and empowerment of Self Help Groups (SHGs) and Community Based Organizations (CBOs), generate opportunities for sustainable living, and enhance leadership abilities to advocate for their rights and necessities in larger contexts. So far, around 12,000 target families have been organised into 725 Self Help Groups (SHGs), 30 Clusters and 4 Federations. Women are empowered through awareness raising, leadership training, establishing thrift and credit systems at group level, self-employment, income-generating activities, networking, and linkages

Micro-credit & credit linkage

Thrift and credit system has been introduced in all the SHGs to promote economical empowerment of rural people especially the women. Micro-credit system serves as a stimulant for initiating self help ventures. The Apex Federation coordinate and supervise micro-credit activities of 30 Clusters and 725 SHGs. This people’s network facilitates VOSARD to makes best use of revolving funds created from various completed projects for continuing the development initiatives. Along with Apex Link, it facilitates and co-ordinates linkage with banks for availing credit facilities and loans by SHGs and clusters for running their income generation activities and micro-enterprises.

Structure of different people’s organizations promoted by the organization is shown below:

Awareness creation, leadership training, skill training, livelihood promotion, micro-finance and taking up issues with government are the major activities dealt through SHGs and federations.