All our activites are moulded and shaped by our interaction at the grassroot level, like the interactions at the many panchayats we work and also in some coastal villages through the women and children.The work with the Local governments further strengthened these interactions as we were able to interact with women from agricultural communityies and women in other traditional occupations.

A major thrust of the community work was at Karimkulam panchayat, which is a coastal panchayat in Trivandrum. We collaborated with a network of local women's group called Stree Aikyavedi (Women's United Front) and conduct meetings, workshops, seminars and other programmes. Another focus area was Alappad, the tsunami affected coastal village in Kollam district. Here too, many supporting activities, demanded by the local government was undertaken like capacity building programmes, camps for adolescent children, exposure visits, assitance in project preparation for livelihood activities etc. The library cum Anganwadi centre at Alappad was built with our support and is functioning well.

We also identified strategic groups from among the most disadvantaged groups (fishing and tribal) and supported them to develop their leadership capabilities and to identify issues which needed urgent action. This work was done to a large extent in Pulluvilla and Vellarad Panchayat.