SELF EMPLOYED WOMEN’S ASSOCIATION (SEWA) is the single largest Central Trade union regi on 12th April, 1972 with a membership of over 3.7 million poor women.

Ahmedabad, Gujrat
Joined April 2024
#SEWA’s sister-to-sister learning is opening new possibilities in rural Goa. From facilitating 30 rural households to start their homestays to organising 450+ women, Goan sisters are organizing, building livelihoods, strengthening leadership and advancing self-reliance together.
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#SEWA’s rabies awareness programme spans 30 districts, reaching nearly 50,000 members. On #WorldRabiesDay, 130 students learnt about rabies prevention and anaemia, strengthening health awareness for healthier, resilient communities. #HealthEducation #CommunityHealth #HumSabEkHai
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From bartering an embroidered blanket for sustenance to addressing the Craft Council, Gauriben’s journey reflects SEWA’s approach to Future of Work: recognizing women’s skills, strengthening collective enterprises, and building dignified livelihoods and self-reliance.
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A dog-bite needs immediate care to avoid rabies. SEWA’s grassroots leaders use nudge-based IEC tools, story-led formats social media messages, and door-to-door visits to help poor women recognise rabies risks - "Wash the wound. Don’t wait. Seek vaccination".
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Extreme heat affects women workers’ health and earnings, yet their daily exposure often goes unmeasured. SEWA’s Heat Sensor Study is building evidence for better protection. Read details regarding the study here : linkedin.com/pulse/from-live…
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On Elaben’s 93rd birth anniversary, SEWA launched ShramGaan - an initiative celebrating women, work and music as well as the Boudhik Shala booklet, carrying forward Elaben's reflections, values and faith in women’s collective strength. Explore ShramGaan: sewa.org/shram-gaan/index.ht…
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While the world debates whether AI will destroy jobs, #SEWA’s members show another possibility: AI can reduce drudgery, strengthen livelihoods and create opportunities if informal women workers help shape it. #PAI #FutureofWork #informalworkers
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#SEWA’s grassroots women leaders shared how women farmers are restoring degraded land, strengthening climate resilience and advancing practical, women-led solutions rooted in collective action and lived experience at #UNCCDCOP17,.
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SEWA members are powering the future! Twenty-five women completed rooftop solar training at PDEU - breaking barriers, building green livelihoods and emerging as skilled leaders of India’s clean energy transition. #RSTA #SEWA #GreenSkills #ReNew #SCGJ #PDEU
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@SewaComm and @icarindia join hands to strengthen women family farmers through climate-resilient agriculture, research, innovation and grassroots action, advancing sustainable livelihoods, food security and the National Action Plan for Family Farming. #BuildingCleanerSkies
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Hon'ble MSME Minister Shri Jitan Ram Manjhi visited SEWA's training center in Ladakh, where members showcased women-led enterprises, reaffirming that partnerships between workers' organizations, government and industry strengthens resilient livelihoods and local economies.
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Knowledge doesn't always travel from classrooms to fields. Sometimes, it travels the other way. SEWA's member Jashodaben's journey shows how women farmers are shaping climate-resilient agriculture. #BuildingCleanerSkies #SEWA #ClimateResilience
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Climate shocks affect livelihoods, health, incomes and dignity of informal women workers every day. #SEWA is strengthening climate resilience with women-led solutions, climate finance, and collective action. Read ILO paper here: tinyurl.com/2uxje62m
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To help build the movement on Women-led Climate Action, #SEWA welcomes grassroots leaders from Ethiopia and Tanzania this February sharing the learnings and impact of #BuildingCleanerSkies Campaign. This is sister-to-sister knowledge sharing!! This is Women-led Climate Action!!
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SEWA's Vima Sakhis are bringing insurance to the last mile. From learning to leading, women like Mitaben are building financial security, livelihoods, and stronger communities across Gujarat.
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Reema Nanavaty of #SEWA speaks on women workers leading climate action, building resilient livelihoods, and challenging poverty through collective strength. Listen to the full podcast with Food Tank here:🎧 podcasts.apple.com/us/podcas…
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Honoured to be pinned as a 🌼 Dandelion by Mary Robinson’s @projdandelion . Through #BuildingCleanerSkies, #SEWA’s 3.7M women workers lead grassroots climate action - building resilience and sustainable futures together. #PintheDandelion #HumSabEkHai #IYWF
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Mary Robinson and the Project Dandelion delegation visited SEWA, where women from 20 states showed how climate solutions already exist at the grassroots. As SEWA says: solutions don’t trickle down—they bubble up. #HumSabEkHai #ClimateJustice
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