Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) is the single largest Central Trade union registered on 12th April, 1972 with a membership of over 2.9 million poor, self-employed women workers from the informal economy across 18 states in India.
We are the single largest women worker’s Central trade union in India. At SEWA, we come together as poor, as women and as worker. The SEWA approach is to address the needs of the worker as a laborer, as well as a woman. This integrated and holistic view of workers has given birth to new and innovative ways to fight poverty and vulnerability.
Our goals are full employment and self-reliance. Full Employment means work security, income security, food security, and social security, which includes health care, child care, insurance, pension, and housing at the household level. Self-Reliance is the ability to work individually and collectively, to achieve economic freedom, and retain decision-making power over matters that concern our lives and livelihoods.