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Based on ethnographic research, this study focuses on health education programs organized by a women’s self-help network in Kanyakumari, India, the Mahalir Association of Literary, Awareness and Rights (MALAR),and the familial practices of individuals who make up the network. The MALAR health initiatives are part of a larger vision for women’s empowerment, consisting of economic programs that include a loans and savings scheme and development of small businesses by women (or microcredit enterprise), the building of national and international alliances to expand their efforts, based on the principles of “health-as-a-right, ” which call for revising national priorities in development, as well as local campaigns that incorporate a wide variety of educational resources, including community knowledge on herbal medicine. This study argues the health practices reorient community health care and social identity, in the context of the home and in larger social domains (the world). Through the practices of belief, individual practices also revisit healing and its relationship to empowerment in the context of spiritual domains (the cosmos). The study argues the reorientation occurs simultaneously in global-leve