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    Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a membership organization for poor, informal women workers in India. It aims to empower women workers through unions, cooperatives, and training. SEWA provides services like childcare, health care, and job skills training to its members. It also advocates on behalf of women workers, such as negotiating higher wages for garment workers and helping home-based workers access loans, training, and electricity to improve their livelihoods.

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    Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a membership organization for poor, informal women workers in India. It aims to empower women workers through unions, cooperatives, and training. SEWA provides services like childcare, health care, and job skills training to its members. It also advocates on behalf of women workers, such as negotiating higher wages for garment workers and helping home-based workers access loans, training, and electricity to improve their livelihoods.

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    Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) is a membership organization for poor, informal women workers in India. It aims to empower women workers through unions, cooperatives, and training. SEWA provides services like childcare, health care, and job skills training to its members. It also advocates on behalf of women workers, such as negotiating higher wages for garment workers and helping home-based workers access loans, training, and electricity to improve their livelihoods.

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    SEWA

    Self Employed Women Association

    Self Employed Womens Association (SEWA) is a Member-based


    Organization of Poor informal sector women workers.

    It is a confluence of three movements - Labor, Co-op and Womens


    movement.

    Bare Facts
    Importance of the Informal Sector

    93 Percent of Indias workforce comes from the informal sector

    60 percent of the informal sector workforce comprises of women

    40 percent of India's exports emanate from the informal sector

    Up to 70% of Indias National Income is contributed by the


    Informal Sector.

    The garment sector is one of the


    most globalized
    sectors and employs large
    numbers of women under poor
    working conditions. In addition to
    low piece rates, homebased
    workers often are not paid for
    months on end, and
    have to cover many of the costs
    of production, including:
    workplace, equipment, and
    utilities.

    Ayesha-bens Story

    At a friends house, I learned to sew on a machine. This was a useful skill. I had
    dreamed of being a doctor, or ateacher but it was not to be. I stopped going
    to school and became a garment worker. Then in 1985, there was terrible
    communal violence in Ahmedabad. My sewing machine was burned and
    damaged. I could no longer work and earn. It was at this time that I came into
    contact with SEWASEWA gave me a new sewing machine and so I began
    sewing again and re-building my life. My son was still very small so I put him in
    SEWAs crche in my area. Then I became active in our garment workers
    union. We organised a rally and demanded minimum wages. Rahima-ben,
    who was a working class woman like me, took the leadership. Seeing her
    confront the merchants who paid us a pittance for our hard labour gave me
    strength and the will to fight. Our wages increased to eighteen and then thirty
    rupees per dozen petticoats sewed. Then Rahima-ben suggested that I join
    SEWAs health team. I had always wanted to be a doctorso I took training to
    be the doctor of my area. So on one hand I sewed for a living and the other I
    got a stipend from SEWA for time spent away from sewing on health work.
    Since I joined SEWA, I got the strength to continueI found the courage to
    speak out.

    In organising garment workers, SEWA has


    focused primarily on negotiating higher piecerates and fairer working conditions for subcontract garment workers many of whom are
    Muslim. This has involved negotiations with the
    Labour Commissioner to demand minimum
    wages, identify cards, and social benefits
    (childcare, health care, and school
    scholarships) for sub-contracted garment
    workers.
    Over the years, SEWA has also helped home
    based own account garment makers to
    acquire new skills, improved equipment, and
    market information to try to compete in the fastchanging local garment market. This has
    included loans for improved sewing machines,
    training at the National Institute of Fashion
    Technology (NIFT), and installing electricity in the
    homes of SEWA members.

    Through the Inclusive Cities


    project, SEWA will continue to
    improve the livelihoods of homebased workers with increased
    presence in other regions of India.
    SEWA will also exchange
    knowledge, best practices, and
    capacity-building insight with
    partner organisations HomeNet
    South Asia and HomeNet South
    East Asia, whose combined efforts
    will unite and represent the voice
    of one of societys least visible
    sectors - home-based workers.

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