SAFAL,-Skills Academy for Appropriate Livelihoods aims to address the issues of livelihood for rural and urban  low income groups. SAFAL facilitates  programs that lead to sustainable and viable livelihood opportunities leading to improvements in the quality of life amongst the rural and the uneducated population.

An initiative started in 2005 March, SAFAL focuses its energies on making available vast knowledge and skill bases that can help ingrain a degree of proficiency and expertise amongst lower income groups. In doing so the team succeeds in not just bring about evident changes in their income levels but also helps provide a sustainable and equitable solution that creates all round development.

In the last two years the team at SAFAL has succeeded in catapulting the income and quality of life of over 2000 people across Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Maharashtra. By creating developmental activities, modules and plans that assist not just individuals but help incorporate added revenue within rural communities.

The team works towards providing skill based vocational training, develop self- employment or placement opportunities and goes a step further by assisting groups in planning small enterprises that  help rural communities interact and interface with larger markets.

SAFAL works round the clock to create and open up more avenues to help integrate the primary sector(agriculture), Secondary sector(manufacturing) and the  urban service sectors in order to create more demand and therefore successfully create more employment for the rural and urban low income groups.

VISION
SAFAL aims to create reach and establish successful, equitable and sustainable livelihood changes and opportunities to over 25,000 people by the year 2010.