MISSION STATEMENT

SEWA Bharat is a federation of membership-based organisations of women workers. It is committed to strengthening the Movement of women in the informal economy by highlighting their issues at the national level and building its member organisations’ capacity to empower them.

WORK OF SEWA BHARAT

The rapid progress made by SEWA in organising women in Gujarat lead to a demand for creation of similar organisations in other states too. SEWA Bharat was thus set up in 1982 in response to this demand. Its main aim is to facilitate the formation of new member organisations across the country and to promote their growth and development.

SEWA Bharat is, therefore, a federation of SEWA member organisations, with the mandate to highlight issues concerning women working in the informal sector, and to strengthen the capacity of the organisations that serve the interests of these women. Presently ten such SEWA member organisations are working in 35 districts of seven states, and together they accounted for a total membership over 8,00,000.

Current SEWA membership-based organisations include:

SEWA Gujarat	SEWA Chattarpur	SEWA Munger
SEWA Madhya Pradesh	SEWA Bhagalpur	SEWA Delhi
Lucknow Mahila SEWA Trust	SEWA Kerala	SEWA Bikaner
SEWA Murshidabad