Ela Bhatt: Many

Ela Bhatt is founder of the Self-Employed Women's Association of India (SEWA). Explore interesting quotes on many.
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“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.”

Ela Bhatt

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

Way , Time

“[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.”

Ela Bhatt

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

Women

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

Ela Bhatt

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

Women , Freedom

“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.”

Ela Bhatt

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

Grass

“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.”

Ela Bhatt

Ela Bhatt bags Global Initiative Award

Imagination , Help , Way , World