Vivekanand Institute for Self Help (VISH) established in 2003 has been training various groups of people since its inception in 2003. Specific training is imparted to specific groups of people associated with social development projects. These are mainly Community Based Organizations. The purpose is to ensure that when the project gets over; the community is capable enough of managing it on their own. VISH has so far trained 24,451 participants through 1065 training programs since its inception.

In India widows are looked upon as a burden to the family. Once the bread winner for her and her children is no more, she is left helpless as nobody wants to take responsibility for them. Most of them are looked down upon with contempt, as useless members of the society. VISH has been training such women since 2006 to establish Trade/ Business/ Service Centre or self employment through entrepreneurship and make them financially independent.

Youth are another group of people VISH has been training since some time. Trainings of Trainers were developed to train staff of various organizations. These include CSR dept. of Paguthan Power Plant, managers of NABARD bank and workers from JK Paper Ltd were trained to understand Self Help Groups, trainers from IKEA project were trained in training of young girls, Shardadevi Gramudhyog Society members were trained in record keeping, VLMs from Bhuj were trained for literacy training.

Highlights of the year

• Total number of training programs - 54
• Total participants trained – 3572
• Widows – 269 through 14 training programs
• Sakhi Mandal members – 593 through 18 programs
• Skill Training -13 through 1 program
• Computer Training – 138 youth through 7 programs
• Life skill training – 121 through 5 programs
• Watershed development – 9 through 1 program
• Nursery Training – 60 students through 2 programs
• Health & Sanitation - 200 committee members- 239 meetings - 1912 participants
• TOT - 84 participants – 7 programs