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Elaben Bhatt

Founder

Founder of Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Elaben Bhatt is the founder of Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) (1972)[1], an Indian non-profit working on livelihood and women & children from Ahmedabad.

Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

SEWA is a trade union of women workers in India's informal economy, founded by Ela Bhatt. It organises self-employed women and supports their livelihoods through cooperatives, microfinance, healthcare, childcare and capacity building — one of the largest such organisations in India.

Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) reports the following, on its own site:

  • 3.7 million women members
  • Organised across 20 states

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