Self Help Groups (SHGs) are small groups of poor people. The members of an SHG face similar problems. They help each other to solve their problems. We have conducted an SHG orientation and up-gradation programme camp. The main objective of the programme was to sensitize women of target area for the need of SHG and its relevance in their empowerment process, to create group feeling among women, to enhance the confidence and capabilities of women, to develop collective decision making among women, to encourage habit of saving among women and facilitate the accumulation of their own capital resource base and to motivate women taking up social responsibilities particularly related to women development. The orientation was attended by more than 80 poor women of the area.