Lolisini Murmu and a team of three other community women are working in 35 villages of Dumka district, Jharkand. They have been mobilizing their own community women to form groups and have conducted awareness raising programs on women’s situation. This team has a systematic planning, monitoring, evaluation and documentation methodology whereby they are able to make concrete and strategic plans for their community women’s development in the areas of accessing the National Rural Employment Guarantee schemes, effective running of government schools in the villages, and outreach of basic needs for the villages. The team has also succeeded in helping the community women start and carry out regular savings & credit activity. Seeing this enthusiasm and commitment, Nirnaya granted soft loans as part of the economic empowerment program to four of the SHGs for processing and selling Non Timber Forest Produce (NTFP). The success of this initiative has spurred the women to take up the initiative of approaching local banks for subsidized loans. As part of capacity building, Nirnaya imparted an intensive training on ‘Right to Information’ and how to use this Act. The team in turn transferred this training to the SHG leaders in its working area.