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Ela Bhatt: Organising Informal Workers: 3 key ideas
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- IDEA 1 OF 3
Visibility for the invisible
Bhatt founded SEWA in 1972 to organise self-employed women such as vendors and home workers, who had no union or legal recognition.
- IDEA 2 OF 3
Finance as empowerment
The SEWA Bank gave poor women access to savings and credit.
Financial inclusion builds bargaining power.
- IDEA 3 OF 3
Many small strengths
She favoured local, member-owned organisations over big top-down programmes.
Strength comes from many people acting together.
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