Vanlaxmi Women Tree Grower's Cooperative initiated by SEWA depicts one of its many achievements in the field of women empowerment and poverty alleviation through sustainable self-employment. This is a case of poor and working landless women's struggle to form and run their eco regenerative activity in the water starved area of Gujarat. It documents how the initiative had to come from the women; the role of group formation and team work; initial ambivalent role of local village organizations and the method of learning new farm extension techniques by earning income from multi-layer, multi-cropping plots. Establishing this co-operative is a lifetime achievement for the group of women who are successfully running this co-operative.