Mission
Empowering the rural poor, minority groups and women to achieve progress in an environment of harmony through the following social and economic means:
• Promote sustainable farming practices to increase self-reliance of land-owners
• Create rural infrastructure through a participatory village community to improve the living habitat
• Assist and motivate the individual family to plan for self development
• Guide and encourage entrepreneurship among the rural poor
• Promote and use spiritualism as a tool for progress
• To work towards a progressive rural India in tandem with all other organizations
Beliefs
• Marginalized farmers need to be organized and empowered with knowledge and tools for development.
• Resources generated within the village should be shared for development.
• Harmony between different income groups is necessary for prosperity.
• Development process should be socially and economically sustainable and can be successful only if it.
adopts the participatory mode.
• Alcoholic abuse is a hindrance for progress. Progress without morality will never be real.
• Progress can only be achieved through participation and sacrifice and not by struggles and street fights.
• Social empowerment of women will lead to sustainable progress and that social women empowerment
shall precede economic empowerment.
• Everybody is trustworthy and therefore needs to be trusted. That micro credit based more on trust is
the foundation for progress.
• A mature, free, dynamic and vibrant federation of Self-help Groups is the proof of a successful
developmental process.
• Progress knows no barrier - caste, creed, community - it is the right of all human beings who desire to
progress.
Objectives
• To work for empowering the poorest
• To organize the rural populace in mobilizing the rural infrastructure for development
• To utilize locally available natural and human resources for progress
• To introduce gainful sustainable means for development of agriculture
• To encourage farm sector and the non-farm sector income generation activities
• To blend morality, integrity and discipline in the process of development
• To facilitate participatory community life and village development programs