Empowering Home-based Workers in India

By SEWA on November 01, 2014

Led by SEWA Bharat as part of its mandate to develop new SEWAs, SEWA Delhi started its efforts in 1999 by organizing women vegetable vendors in Jahangirpuri urban slum. During initial survey phase, SEWA identified a large number of home-based workers in eastern part of Delhi engaged in bindi, bangle, bed sheet making and embroidery.

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