Amazon Quiz: Ela Bhatt founded which women’s association?
Options:
Nanhi Kali
Rahi Foundation
SEWA
Bharatiya Mahila Bank
Answer: SEWA
Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), means “service” in a number of Indian languages. The organization is a trade union based in Ahmedabad, India, that promotes the rights of low-income female workers who are independently employed. It was founded in 1972 by Gandhian and civil rights leader Ela Bhatt as a branch of the Textile Labour Association (TLA), which is a labor union founded by Mahatma Gandhi in 1918.
SEWA is the largest organization of informal workers in the world, with over 1.6 million participating women. The organization is framed around the goal of full employment through which a woman secures for her family: income, food, health care, child care, and shelter. The principles that go into play behind the establishment of these goals are struggle and development, meaning negotiating with stakeholders and providing services.
The organization initially started out with 30,000 members in 1996. Over 50 years, SEWA has built more than four dozen institutions for the poor and by the poor, and to empower poor women workers — all founded on the principle that “the poor do not need charity, they need an enabling mechanism to strive and come out of the vicious circle of poverty and vulnerability”.
SEWA, as Bhatt always said, is a trade union of women who “did not need to come together against anyone, they just needed to come together for themselves”.
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