An unspoken but conscious effort on our part is to encourage the involvement of women in all programmes. The fruit of this were seen in the last few years when a full fledged women's wing could start with the open support of the men.

    As a policy, programmes were auto targeted towards the poor, i.e. implementation rules were unattractive to the 'non poor', who thus voluntarily stayed away. No divide was created in the village on the basis of either caste or economic status.

    This approach continues in our Urban and Disability work also with the addition that greater training inputs are being given to beneficiary groups to empower them with knowledge and skills to fight their own cause.

    Economic poverty need answers beyond welfare measures, if poverty reduction is to be kept sustainable. Any system will have its drawbacks and unless an alert eye is kept, it will be high jacked by powerful vested interests. Thus, Janarth decided to make the system work for the poor by becoming a player in the market, exerting pressure and using the system on behalf of the poor. Not by bending rules, but by following the spirit of the rules. By attempting to plug the loopholes in the system, which work against the poor.

    In the case of children we consider ourselves responsible beyond imparting information and training to the community. Because the  future of children cannot wait. So even as we sensitize the community and the authorities we also take on the responsibility of running the activity - education classes.