Women in two wheelers fight against social and economic injustices and work towards women empowerment through Literacy and Self help group movements.

Around 100000 women in Trichirappalli district of Tamil Nadu has emerged as prospective Self help group members, most families here rely on land for sustenance, converted barren soil and promoted irrigation systems means better crops, relieving  families from cycle of poverty. In early nineties with the support of District Administrative local NGO namely SEVAI had been involved in National Literacy Campaign and recruited women volunteers who dedicated their free time to street theatre programs for illiterate audiences. Amala, Vanitha and her colleagues decided to mobilize public support for a large-scale literacy project for their under served locality, and eventually secured government and SEVAI backing. One of the first priorities was to recruit full-time volunteers and determine how to deliver lessons with maximum efficiency. Vanitha, Amala and her colleagues suggested that the women could perhaps be taught to ride bicycles. As well as learning to read and write, both the volunteers and their pupils would master the art of two-wheel travel. As a gentle introduction to the idea and to help women overcome their apprehension, a number of motivating cycle songs were sung in the rural communities. Earlier the husband would ride with the wife sitting behind. This is now an old story, as SHG organizers of women self help group members, Vanitha and her colleges use two wheelers for promotion of Female literacy and livelihood programs in rural areas through self help groups.

The SHG education which started in Literacy movement currently broadens the scope of functional education, to look beyond basic literacy skills and include training in a range of empowering, confidence-building skills. The impact of Literacy campaign showed that basic education gave women confidence, independence, higher incomes and a clear improvement in lifestyle through broadened SHG movement for around 10000 women and they name it as Villuthukal. The Villuthukal SEVAI has shown the way that empowerment of women can be a key aspect of all social development programs. Empowerment of rural women is a complex terminology but by and large includes in it’s purview personal, educational, economic and political enabling, the SEVAI intervention to Women SHGs through Villuthukal on women empowerment seeks to give toot the rural women all those skills with which she can or has the ability to make important life choices. SEVAI views of all the intertwined arms of empowerment health, education and economic freedom are probably the most critical and around these revolve the social and political issues. They are the most potent weapons with which the social and economic injustices of over-work, under-payment, powerlessness, ill-treatment and mal-nourishment are being fought by these women those are in two wheelers.-Govin