Community Aid Abroad : 1994 Program Review

Oxfam in Australia

•Indore Mahila Vikas Project: $11,900.00 to support the Indore branch of

SEWA (Self-Employed Women's Association).  SEWA is a women's organisation

which provides working women with credit, training in financial management, group

formation, leadership, childcare and insurance facilities.

A member of Sewa, Kheda branch depositing savings - India. Photo: Bruce Eady, CAA

•Chippa Women Block Printers Cooperative Program: $31,818.00 to fund work carried out by

SEWA with self-employed women who have formed themselves into strong cooperatives to

demand their rights and to acquire information on health care, banking, labour laws,

and government welfare schemes.

•Lucknow Self-Employed Women's Credit & Asset Building & Organising Artisans

Program: $24,488.00 as support to the Lucknow branch of SEWA, where they are

training and organising artisans in the traditional embroidery craft, 'Zari'.

This branch of SEWA has suffered through communal violence as most of their women

members are Muslim.

Self-Employed Women's Association

SEWA Reception Centre,

Opp.Victoria Garden,

Ahmedabad - 380 001

India