BackGround

Sarvodaya Foundation is a net-work institution of Federations of Self-Help Groups (F-SHG) having more than twenty years of experience in community banking and building people institutions for the purpose of poverty reduction and development. Over the years, Self-Help Group (SHG) movement in India has become a game changer in microfinance. The enabling model adopted by leading organizations resulted in SHGs getting federated and sustained institutionally. The SHG-bank linkage model where federations acting as sponsor of SHGs has contributed immensely to the sustainability of the SHG-Federation network. It has also resulted in fulfilling the mission of alleviating poverty through creating access to saving, credit and insurance services at an affordable cost