• Training in Social work
• Community development programmes – projects
• Hostels for working and student women
• Recreation and Sports clubs
• Centres for counseling and shelter for women facing distress situations
• Centres for Secretarial Training and other Vocational skilled training
• Adult education and Management skills training
• Awareness education/Leadership training
• Professional and Business Women’s groups
• Crèches and Day-Care facilities for children of working mothers
• Counseling – Careers, marriage and family life.

Public Stand on Issues
The PIONEERING spirit of the founders has been reflected in the variety of causes taken up by YWCAs in India.

Networking with YWCAs around the world and with other organizations in India, the national movement has worked on a wide variety of public issues, viz.


GLOBAL: In support of YWCAs in The civil rights movements in USA

• The fight against apartheid in South Africa
• Liberation struggles of countries under oppressive rules
• Their efforts to bring peace with justice in the Middle East
• The fight against multinational encroachments on development in Third World countries
• Efforts to chalk out international conventions on rights of women and children
• Efforts to remove all forms of discrimination against Women, Peace and Disarmament movements.
  

NATIONAL: Campaigns in supports of

• National policies to ensure equal access to development processes for women
• Legislative reforms to remove discrimination against women
• Legislation to ban sex determination tests
• Anti-dowry and Anti-Sati laws
• A uniform Civil Code and review of Christian Personal laws in preparation for UCC
• A just settlement for Bhopal gas victims
• Communities affected by pollution of Periyar river- Kerala
• Equal wages for equal work for women
• A National Convention on Rights of the Child
• Anti-obscenity law and code for media projection of women
• Baby Food Code and Maternity Benefits
• Inter-religious dialogue for communal harmony and national integration.