As a strategy for the social empowerment and economic advancement of the weaker sections among rural people ADARSHA has been engaged in the promotion of Self Help Groups or SHGs of poor people, mostly women belonging to the socio-economically disadvantaged sections. The various capacity building training programs conducted for these groups enable them to grow as cohesive community-based associations that strive for economic self-reliance and sustainable development. ADARSHA has promoted SHGs, in about 40 villages of Mangalore and Karkala Taluks in Karnataka State, organizing more than 3000 rural poor belonging to the weaker social sections and conducts regular monitoring, facilitation and training programs to strengthen them to grow as sustainable local community based organizations of people belonging to weaker sections in the rural areas.
