SEWA (SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION) : Empowering Women

Women try to create opportunity around themselves with their constants and collective efforts. That grows self reliance and confidences. When they fail they do not lose their hope instead search for a better way to deal with it. However they face a social and economical problem. Therefore SEWA stands for them.
About 80% of India's women are economically active, but because they are largely self-employed and so lack employers, they are "invisible to the economic plan of the nation." SEWA is committed to helping self-employed women gain visibility and rights. 
It’s an organization of poor, self employed women workers who make living by their own labor or small business such as the street vendors, Hawkers, Home based workers, Manual labors and services providers.
It provides credits with low interest’s rates to women through SEWA Bank, health care, child care, work security insurance, legal services. Empower women’s for capacity building thereby educating, finding an employment, bargaining for wages and price of their goods and also for their employment rights. SEWA helps women for building houses and infrastructures. It co-operates with government for rural development programmers.
SEWA is not just an organization but a movement of labor, co-operation and women’s movement. It organizes campaign for home based workers so that their voice will reach to civil society and international organization such as ILO, Forest workers campaign, The water campaign, Campaign for our Right to Child Care, Campaign for Recognition of Midwives, Recognition of Unorganized Sector Workers, Vendors Campaign, Construction Workers' Campaign, Food Security Campaign, Minimum Wages Campaign
The voices, faces, work and lives of its members come live through Video SEWA. It is a powerful medium and one that is effective in bringing information about the world outside their village to its members. 
Women’s around the world were influenced with by SEWA so that they founded SEWA is in South Africa Durban, Yemen, Turkey. Video SEWA’s “My Life, My Work” won the Social Documentary Award at the Guidonia Film Festival in Guidonia, Italy. We are poor, but so many, written by SEWA founder Elaben Bhatt, takes readers into the world and work of self-employed women. The National Federation of Cooperative Banks, New Delhi, awarded SEWA Bank an award for “Excellent performance”.