Mumbai The U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) Acting Administrator Alfonso Lenhardt announced a new $1.5 million, three-year award to the Indian Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), "the world’s largest women’s cooperative, with a membership exceeding 1.9 million". SEWA will partner with government and civil society stakeholders in Afghanistan and India to train more than 3,000 Afghan women across five provinces in vocational skills including embroidery, garment...Read More

By Japan K Pathak Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 29 April 2013 With official documents in hand, in this series I am trying to narrate the details of crorepati non-government organizations functioning in Gujarat – author In last article we picked up five SEWA NGOs and told you that the total foreign donation received by them in last six years was around Rs 1.40 billion. Now if you think 1.50 billion could be a better figure rather than 1.40 billion, you are free to add Rs 10 crore r...Read More

By Japan K Pathak Ahmedabad, DeshGujarat, 26 May 2013 With official documents in hand, in this series I am trying to narrate the details of crorepati non-government organizations functioning in Gujarat - author While doing a series on crorepati NGOs functioning in Gujarat, I just can't miss SEWA(Self Employed Women's Association) - the organization headquartered in Ahmedabad, and visited by Hillary Clinton twice. In fact SEWA is the organization which is mentioned and admi...Read More

Ahmedabad, 24 May 2012 IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is helping India’s Self-Employed Women’s Association, SEWA, provide energy-efficient cook stoves and solar lanterns to more than 200,000 of its members in the state of Gujarat, pioneering sustainable clean energy solutions for the poor. IFC will provide a partial credit guarantee for a $5 million loan that an Indian private sector bank is providing to SEWA-sponsored Grassroots Trading Network for Women. The loan...Read More

Ahmedabad, 25 April, 2012 Presented above are the pictures of 40-year celebration of Self Employed Women Asociation (SEWA) held in Ahmedabad today. The performances were given on the stage from women belonging to various states and nations involved in activities of SEWA. Read More

Ahmedabad, 20 March, 2012 U.S. Consul General Peter Haas participated in a graduation ceremony at the Self –Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) for a group of Kyrgyz women leaders. The 10 day seminar was funded by the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Women’s Issues. Highlighting SEWA’s success in promoting women’s empowerment through entrepreneurship, Haas said “I am honored to be here to celebrate the great work of the women business leaders from ...Read More

Ahmedabad, 19 March, 2012 Peter Haas, Consul General of Mumbai based American Consulate office will be on one-day visit to Ahmedabad on Tuesday. Consul General Hass will address the women leaders at the graduation ceremony for Kyrgyz women leaders at the SEWA management school in city. Read More