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Women predominate in the lower strata of employment.
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SEWA is now the largest union in India, with a membership of around 1.2 million women.
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Microfinance is the best example of success in the kinds of systemic institutional areas.
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…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.
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I am Hindu, and my activism is very much framed within that context, of karma as meaning action.
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Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.
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All my life I have worked to change concepts, and that begins with how people see and understand the problems.
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Systems are needed, for example for management, accounting, skill development and MIS to serve the needs of the working poor.
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Injustice happens at many levels, from the grass roots to the top. And one of the keys of SEWA's vision and action is linking them.
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The country is moving in a different direction, times have changed. But for me Gandhiji's values are still the frame, still alive and valid.
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[SEWA] have been doing many different things, leading the SEWA movement which is about economic freedom for the poor, women, and self employed.
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[So], in 1972, we started SEWA, the Self Employed Women's Association. SEWA in many respects is a microcosm of the general picture of the informal sector, in India and worldwide.
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Through women, what exists and is real, what is traditional, historical, modern and cultural, given the opportunity, is upgraded. That is what the challenge to bring peace is about.
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What we really are looking for is self reliance and that is how we should measure success. I don't much like the word empowerment, but self-reliance is the foundation of SEWA's approach,.
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…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same.
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Born:
September 7, 1933
Died:
November 2, 2022
(aged 89)
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