Sadhna aims at providing employment to more and more women
and training them into artisans, and hence every year we add on to our members through induction programmes.
After acquiring the skills through a 3 months training, these members start contributing to the mainstream production cycle.
Sadhna follows a continuous process of providing work to its members, which over the years has today grown to become
a group of 379 members.
The prerequisite of a group to be formed is that the group should have at least 30-35 members to begin with.
It is also required to see if the group is need based and does require an income generation activity to support their living.

Sadhna believes in having members involvement in all aspects of its work, and hence takes up skill up gradation and design development workshops for its members through out the year.
These are opportunities to disseminate more and more understanding amongst member artisan towards design, colour patterns and quality of their products.
It is important for them to understand, how a good quality product
is important to penetrate into the market and stabilize as
a brand identity.

Over the years Sadhna has grown into a vibrant self-sustaining unit. Sadhna has played a major role in creating awareness amongst its women members and their households regarding social issues that are a part of their day-to-day life.
Today there has been a noticeable change in the lives of these artisans. Once not even exposed to their village surroundings, these women are today playing critical role in house hold matters as well as in the decision making of various village level issues.
Sometimes they are active in larger socio-political concerns and issues of equity across villages.
For Sadhna and its members, economic empowerment has proved to be a path to their larger social/political empowerment, and that is the core purpose of Sadhna.