Activity Description: HLL partners with select women entrepreneurs from self-help groups (SHG). These women sell HLL's products in rural India, and receive a commision for the number of goods that they sell. HLL envisions the creation of 25,000 Shakti Entrepreneurs covering 100,000 villages, and touching the lives of 100 million rural people by the year 2005. Update: Shakti has generated two related projects, i-Shakti and Shakti Vani. i-Shakti is a Internet-based rural information service launched in Andhra Pradesh, in association with the Andhra Pradesh Government's Rajiv Internet Village Programme. The service is now available in Nalgonda, Vishakapatnam, West Godavari and East Godavari districts. iShakti has been developed to provide information and services to meet rural needs in medical health and hygiene, agriculture, animal husbandry, education, vocational training and employment and women's empowerment. The vision is to have 3,500 kiosks across the state by 2005. Shakti Vani is a social communication program. Women trained in health and hygiene issues address village communities through meetings at schools, village baithaks, and other social forums. In 2004, Shakti Vani covered 10,000 villages in Madhya Pradesh, Chattisgarh and Karnataka. The vision is to cover 50,000 villages in 2005.