Udyogini works with poor women at the grassroots level with the aim of ensuring sustainable development and long-term food security. Its vision is for a society where women are self-reliant and in control over their lives.

The main thrust is to provide them with basic management skills so that they are able to set up small enterprises and successfully operate them. It is indeed not an easy task to communicate and make mainly illiterate people understand basic management skills.

Udyogini has successfully implemented a model that it has indigenously developed to train these women in basic skills of running a business. However this process is on going and Udyogini is looking for support and facilitation from educational institutes and professional organizations for developing teaching and learning models and implementing them at the grassroots level. We offer a wonderful opportunity for students from Social work, Psychology and Management departments to intern with us and upgrade their skills through hands on experience. We would like professional organizations engaged in a similar or related activities to send us their professional staff on deputation who can train on issues such as quality control and markets to Udyogini and grassroots NGO staff or have special technical skills in particular industries such as design for crafts development, agro-processing and knowledge and linkages with overseas markets.

Udyogini also offers opportunities for disadvantaged women to show case their products in upscale urban markets by holding exhibitions and sales. We look forward to support from trade organizations for donations of venues for such exhibitions and sponsorship for creation and dissemination of publicity material.