write a note on S E W A women working place in LUCKNOW
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Answer:
SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector.
Explanation:
The Self Employed Women's Association, Lucknow, an autonomous association of chikan workers was registered in February 1984 under the Societies Registration Act. It came into existence following a study conducted by UNICEF and Literacy House, Lucknow in 1979 which revealed that women and children working in the Chikan Industry were more cruelly exploited than in any other craft of the unorganized sector in U.P. To break out of the stranglehold of middlemen, they needed a viable and sustainable production system with direct access to ready markets. SEWA, Lucknow thus incrementally grew in corporate strength in response to this need. . With the elimination of middlemen, higher, direct and regular wages directly benefited SEWA members, whose total earnings wages have dramatically increased over the years.
Our Objectives
To ensure that crafts women engaged in this embroidery get sufficient and regular work at fair wages without exploitation by middlemen, manufacturers and other entrepreneurs.
To identify and develop promising new markets for Chikan products.
To organise Chikan workers by developing their confidence, leadership potential and sense of security
To train members in purchase, production, management, marketing and accounting
To upgrade the skills of artisans through training programmes which improve the quality and range of their work
To revive and revitalise the traditional craft and take it to its original level of refinement
To provide a strong platform from which artisans can bargain for higher wages from traders and middlemen
To ensure social benefits like educational, health and other Right’s based facilities for member artisans and their children
Our Vision
To value and promote an egalitarian and gender just Society within a framework of Women's Rights and Sustainable Human Development.
Our Mission
To empower marginalized women by developing their capacities to make informed choices and enhance the overall quality of their lives.
Our Strategy
Skill up gradation for overcoming exploitation of middlemen through self-marketing. Developing