SHEPHERD takes up educational and development activities as tool to enable the rural communities achieve development. A class of, say 40 students, is divided into 8 groups of 5 each. Each group starts with a specific target depending on the village needs to be accomplished before they complete their course of study. In the Process, each hamlet will also have got a few of their chosen young men and women trained as village animators, who in turn form the backbone of the students-Community link. The Overall schedule of the Outreach Comprises of three distinctive but interrelated stages,