Chaitanya Sravanthi’s major success in women empowerment comes from its hugely popular microcredit programs.When a formal registered cooperative society was formed to manage microcredit operations mostly targeting women with no proper means of earning they became completely free from clutches of unscrupulous local money lenders.

The beneficiaries’ success is evident from the perceptible changes in their status and lifestyle. Often they have become more assertive and confident in their day-to-day transactions and dealings with people in general and bank and government officials in particular.

They utilize economic opportunities available and set up small enterprises and make substantial profits thus keeping their small businesses sustainable.

Chaitanya Sravanthi catalyzed the formation of small groups of women not exceeding 15 members and these women are automatically enrolled as members of the microcredit society.

When these women, maintaining savings accounts, are provided access to small loans the individual groups are expected to make beneficiaries responsible for ensuring repayment.

To start with about 50 Self Help Groups consisting of about 750 members were started in 1999. Since then the concept of micro-credit has caught on rapidly  among womenfolk and the number of SHGs has grown by leaps and bounds.

Today the number of SHGs is more than 500 consisting of thousands of women.

Chaitanya Sravanthi also arranges external loans running into crores of rupees from nationalized banks and government agencies.