Swami Vivekananda Youth Movement

SVYM's education initiatives target rural, tribal, and urban students from economically challenged backgrounds. They offer residential education, scholarships for rural meritorious students, technology-based learning in rural Govt. Schools, vocational skills, and health and hygiene through WASH programs. Capacity building of teachers and collaboration with educators and policy makers are crucial focus areas. The tribal residential school, Viveka Tribal Centre for Learning, provides contextually relevant education for children from indigenous tribal communities, specifically Jenu Kuruba, a Particularly Vulnerable Tribal Group.

SVYM's Health Sector aims to enhance human and social capital by providing equitable and accessible healthcare through institution and community-based interventions. Their Rural Secondary Care Specialty Hospital, Vivekananda Memorial Hospital, serves thousands of rural and tribal individuals yearly, acting as a hub for various community health programs spanning different age groups. Their services encompass promotive, preventive, curative, rehabilitative, and palliative care, delivered through home, community, and institution-based services. SVYM's health interventions cover maternal-newborn health, early disease prevention in childhood, support for specially-abled individuals, primary care in remote tribal areas, health and hygiene promotion, screening for non-communicable diseases, and elder care and palliative services, all working in collaboration with the Government Health System.

SVYM's Socio-Economic Empowerment Program (SEEP) aims to strengthen the social capital of communities, emphasizing their active involvement in development, benefiting from government schemes, and engaging in democratic processes.
SEEP emerged naturally from SVYM's efforts in Health and Education, enabling community members to utilize their human capital collectively for mutual benefit.
The program starts by forming Social Collectives (Self Help Groups), fundamental units of community-driven development. These groups, consisting of rural and tribal women and specially-abled individuals, engage in group savings and rural entrepreneurship through social business units. Over time, these collectives grow into large federations, collaborating to solve problems and promote local development. This approach provides a contextually relevant and culturally appropriate foundation for development.

SVYM collaborates with global partners to ensure water security and reduce water inequity in rural and urban Karnataka. The Water, Sanitation, and Hygiene (WASH) initiative involves individuals, organizations, and the government in action at schools, anganwadi centers, and communities. Children are seen as catalysts of change through a child-to-child, child-to-family, and child-to-community approach.
Additionally, SVYM undertakes renewable energy projects, focusing on solar electrification of villages and remote tribal hamlets to drive their development.