GUIDE INDIA Established in 1985

GUIDE was starteds in 1985 and had grown an organisation which has women associations serving themselves in 180 villages (including 20 coastal villages after Tsunami). It also serves women of hundreds of villages in other districts, but capacity building the NGO staff and the federation leaders who work for them.

GUIDE is primarily a team of women working for the empowerment of women. The acronym itself is consciously arrived at. It reminds us of our attitude. We do not want to do anything for others, but only guide them to be able to do themselves, so that they could become self supportive and their effort sustainable. As the first step, we have helped women to achieve their felt needs met. These felt needs (water, road, street, transport etc.) are generally the needs of their family and the community too. The sceptic male members of the community began to acknowledge.