The Shillim Institute believes that empowering the local community is critical in making real and sustainable change. Special programmes for local communities’ help create employment for its members, enables the efficient running of the schools and effective functioning of health centres. Sustainable community development programmes are formulated based on the baseline survey and profiling of the local community that was conducted in the villages of Shillim – Kadav, Vageshwar, Bodshil, and Shindewadi.