VISH - Vivekanand Institute for Self Help was born in October 2003 as a dream child of late Shri Govindjibhai Shroff, a great visionary who strongly believed in the philosophy of Swami Vivekanand that 'Each soul is potentially divine. The goal is to manifest the potential within.

VISH caters to the needs of various groups of people in terms of providing training, development and empowerment. These groups included grassroots level workers, field staff, special groups as well as workers and supervisors from industries. With a humble beginning as District Training Centre (DTC) in the year 2003-2004, it trained less then 1000 people in its first year. Today it can boast of almost six fold achievement over the last four yeas.

VISH today, reaches out to various other groups of people through its multifaceted program. It has in its realm people ranging between 5 to over 50 years of age for whom it is creating not only venues for education and training but also providing life long learning for developing Life Skills required for survival in fast changing modern society affected by liberalization and globalization.

Student Placement

The multi faceted activities of the trust have attracted several higher educational institutions in and out side Vadodara. This includes universities like M. S. University of Baroda, S.P. University at Vallabh Vidhyanagar, Ganpat University at Kherva and Mehsana and J. C. Kumarappa Institute of Gadhada. The students belong to specialized fields like Agribusiness Management, Disaster Management, Handicraft, and Apparel Designing & Embroidery to general fields like Health, Education and Agriculture.

Those seeking specialized training during placement were kept in Swami Vivekananda Krushi Seva Kendra (SVKSK) for Agribusiness Management, Health & Education Department for Disaster Management program and Handicraft Department in case of handicraft or Apparel designing and Embroidery. Other students were involved in short term skill development programs, specific health related programs like IRAAP for AIDS awareness, consumer education, as well as specific projects in Human Resource Management in HR & Personnel Department at Kalali.

Types of training given...

• Community based Training
• Skill Training
• Widow Training
• Industrial Training
• Training of Trainers