Securing the rights and entitlements of the most marginalised communities
Village Service Trust has been working for more than 40 years to support people in their pursuit of lives free from poverty, violence and discrimination in villages in south India.
We aim to provide stable, sensitive and responsive support to the most marginalised people in their activities to overcome poverty and discrimination. We take a rights-based approach to support communities to claim and secure their basic rights and entitlements.
We maintain close relations with our local partners in India ensure that grassroots knowledge is at the centre of our approach to sustainable community development. We are, at heart, an organisation of people in the UK who have forged a special connection with projects in one small corner of India – Theni District in Tamil Nadu.
Women’s self help groups are a big part of what we do
It just takes a spark!
Women’s self-help groups can
- Give women a voice
- Empower women
- Reduce domestic violence
- Increase incomes
- Free women from indebtedness
- Keep girls in school
- Help women get elected
These groups don’t start by themselves.
Someone has to take the initiative.
That’s us and our partners.
And that spark?
That’s you.