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“realities of our own countries rather than catching up with the western economic models, [Bhatt urged] the people to follow a principle which ensures six basic necessities- food, shelter, clothing, primary education, primary healthcare and primary banking- are available within a 100 mile distance. If these necessities are locally produced and consumed, we will have the growth of a new holistic economy.”

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Quoted in in "Ela Bhatt of SEWA awarded Indira Gandhi Prize for promoting peace".

“[So], in 1972, we started SEWA, the Self Employed Women’s Association. SEWA in many respects is a microcosm of the general picture of the informal sector, in India and worldwide.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“I grew up in the time around India’s independence, in the aura of a country fighting for its freedom. It was a heady and idealistic time, and we were all infected with a spirit of optimism, and the spirit of Gandhiji.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“We were rebuilding the nation, looking to a more just society. It was a time when many of us were going to the villages to live there. We were a generation that had no confusion in our minds as to how to do things. Gandhiji had shown the way. This atmosphere infused politics and the way we did things.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“SEWA is now the largest union in India, with a membership of around 1.2 million women.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“…Inner peace is important, but I have always felt that living a daily life with peace is the end. So in reality individual peace and global peace are not separate. They are one and the same.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

Ela Bhatt Quotes about women

“…tribute to her unflinching zeal towards the betterment of women in society.”

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President of India on conferring the Indira Gandhi Prize for Peace, Disarmament and Development for her for promoting the cause of women relentlessly allowing millions of them to become independent and self reliant through her Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). Ela Bhatt of SEWA awarded Indira Gandhi Prize for promoting peace, 20 December 2013, Tehelca.com http://www.tehelka.com/ela-bhatt-of-sewa-awarded-indira-gandhi-prize-for-promoting-peace/,

“[SEWA] have been doing many different things, leading the SEWA movement which is about economic freedom for the poor, women, and self employed.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Through women, what exists and is real, what is traditional, historical, modern and cultural, given the opportunity, is upgraded. That is what the challenge to bring peace is about.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Women predominate in the lower strata of employment.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“She (Bhatt) has helped not only women in India but women in South Africa, in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and inspired so many others to find their own way forward to overcome long legacies of inequality and unfairness. She has helped us imagine and then work toward a fairer world.”

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Ela Bhatt Quotes

“Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Injustice happens at many levels, from the grass roots to the top. And one of the keys of SEWA’s vision and action is linking them.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“I am Hindu, and my activism is very much framed within that context, of karma as meaning action.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Microfinance is the best example of success in the kinds of systemic institutional areas.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Systems are needed, for example for management, accounting, skill development and MIS to serve the needs of the working poor.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“SEWA is about political action, and that has always been at the heart of what we have done. It is about changing the balance of power in favor of the poor. That has meant constant tension, with big farmers, moneylenders, contractors, big traders, government, local panchayats, and so on.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“Teachers do not care…It is not because teachers are badly paid and the teachers are organized but they do not teach. If we don’t respect them it is because we see them doing other business than teaching.”

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On the low social regard for teachers.[Ghate, Chetan title=The Oxford Handbook of the Indian Economy, http://books.google.com/books?id=kPYXpHSVbywC&pg=PA373, 13 March 2012, Oxford University Press, 978-0-19-973458-0, 373–]

“What we really are looking for is self reliance and that is how we should measure success. I don’t much like the word empowerment, but self-reliance is the foundation of SEWA’s approach,.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“All my life I have worked to change concepts, and that begins with how people see and understand the problems.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“The country is moving in a different direction, times have changed. But for me Gandhiji’s values are still the frame, still alive and valid.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)

“…Poverty and violence are not God made, they are man made. Poverty and peace cannot coexist.”

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Discussion with Ela Bhatt, Founder, Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA)