What You Can Do

Self Help Groups and MicroFinance initiatives are empowering the women of rural Bihar.
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Academy of Root Development

Social Perspective and Role of the Trust:
A major problem for village communities, especially for landless and marginal farmers, is the forced migration of people to towns and metro cities in search of work.

ARD Trust is working to improve social and economic conditions to enable people to achieve sustainable employment and the opportunity to remain within their own villages.

Self Help Groups and Micro-finance
Self Help Groups(SHG's) are the basic building blocks for change at the grass-roots level and are a central strategy to all programmes developed and implemented by the Academy of Root Development.

Read more about Self Help Groups here

Read about Microfinance here

Download an ARD Overview here (50kb MSWord.doc)

ARD Brochure
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The Vision of ARD
* awareness and capacity building through the establishment of Self Help Groups

* women's empowerment through
micro-finance management

* environmental awareness and sustainable agricultural practices

Success Stories
Read about women whose lives have been changed by becoming members of ARD Self Help Groups here

Photo Gallery
Visit our village images here

Read the latest Newsletter here
(644kb MSWord.doc)

Read previous Newsletters here

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