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.

Joined April 2024
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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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Apr 24
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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Apr 21
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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Mar 15
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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Mar 13
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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Mar 11
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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At #SEWA, we understand the role of continuous skill upgradation for enabling full employment and self-reliance. Therefore, SEWA’s members and leaders visited ITE Singapore to explore industry-linked training models that create dignified, future-ready livelihoods. #FutureOfWork
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Through SEWA’s #BuildingCleanerSkies campaign, poor women workers are leading grassroots climate action. In Nov 2025, SEWA members from 9 states gathered in Delhi to share climate challenges and solutions. Read the roundtable report: shorturl.at/BTvIa
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At SEWA, leaders rise from within. Jashiben’s journey from a quiet homemaker to organising 2,500 women shows how collective action builds confidence, income, and grassroots leadership. #SEWA #WomenLead #humsabekhai
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Feb 27
Screening of Mrs. Robinson marked a powerful exchange between global leadership and grassroots action. Mary Robinson affirmed women as climate leaders, spotlighting SEWA’s work advancing just, community-led transitions. Read more: url-shortener.me/EPW9 #SEWA #ClimateJustice
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Feb 25
At SEWA, through collective action, women waste recyclers strengthen livelihoods and climate resilience - moving from vulnerability to visibility and leadership.. reflects Susan Walker from IBU movement. Read here: ibumovement.org/blogs/news/f…
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Feb 23
At #SEWA, love is #solidarity in action. Interacting with members of SEWA, Pat Mitchell of Project Dandelion experienced this form of Love that she calls “courageous, disciplined, world-building.” Read her “Love Letter to SEWA sisters” here: mailchi.mp/patmitchellmedia/…]
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Feb 11
At #SEWA, our 11-question yardstick, strengthened by the Poverty Stoplight Tool helps us track progress, take decisions, and lead communities toward dignity, security, and self-reliance together.
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SEWA's sustained organising brought workers, employers and PF authorities together in Murshidabad—resulting in facilitation camps, closer access, and renewed momentum for beedi women’s Provident Fund rights through collective dialogue action. Read more: shorturl.at/1nrqB
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Jan 28
Sister-to-sister learning builds trust. When women train women, confidence grows. Jyotiben’s journey shows how #SEWA creates leaders, livelihoods, and community services from within.
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Jan 21
Through its #BuildingCleanerSkies Campaign, #SEWA organised women farmers like Niruben to adopt clean energy and organic farming—cutting costs, raising incomes, and building climate resilience through women’s leadership from the field together now.
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Invited by Honourable Union Finance Minister Shri. Nirmala Sithraman to the Pre-Budget Consultations 2026, #SEWA presented recommendations amplifying informal women workers’ voices—calling for social protection, climate security and dignified livelihoods.
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