The main focus of the Trust is SELF-HELP - A Key to Women's Empowerment and Self-Development. Efficient planning, budgeting and savings are essential components for economic sustainability.

Sampada believes in organizing women into SHGs, regularly practicing saving with internal lending. These SHGs are federated at the village level, called the Sanyukta Mahila Samitee (SMS).

Empowerment is a process of capacity building of people. Sampada Trust regularly organizes training, exchanges, and exposures on relevant themes for SHGs, SMSs, Women Promoters, NGOs, and staff.

Micro finance has become a major tool for development. Sampada Trust was instrumental in providing timely credit to SHGs through SMS until 31 March 2013.

Sampada Trust provides motivational, information, and managerial inputs to SHGs through SMSs for undertaking income-generating activities and micro-enterprises.

This is a new intervention of Sampada. Women in the villages felt the need to secure their lives and livelihoods; however, the insurance service was not accessible to the rural poor.

The representative body of women's groups - the SMS, consolidates the concerns of women and finds solutions to the expressed socio-economic demands.

They implement activities such as drinking water, sanitation, health, and hygiene promotions, which have made Sampada's women self-confident contributors to the development process.