Our Activities
SEWA's Activities are based on More than three decade experience
SEWA Belives in supporting small and marginal rural producers, strengthening them with capacity building, providing financial assistance and all sorts of guidance, monitoring, and handholding support until they become sustainable.
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FEASIBILITY STUDY
SEWA believes in studying local scenarios, people especially women, and their current situation, their needs, skills, social structure, opportunities, and parameters should be understood for sustainable development. SEWA’s approach is poor women-centric and its methodology is assessing the needs of local poor women and building their capacities and capabilities for sustainable development.
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EXPOSURE VISIT
Using the feasibility visit, SEWA will identify potential leaders and micro entrepreneurs for vising SEWA for exposure. We propose the exposure visit to be of at least 5 days. SEWA believes in sister-to-sister learning and this exposure visit will give insights to the visiting team on how the sisters in Gujarat are running their individual as well as group micro-enterprises and what kind of livelihood opportunities are available.
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CENTER SET-UP
Helping small and marginal women farmer producers to set up a center for Agro products and food products. In the processing centers; rural women farmers are selected, and trained to manage their centers on their own. Providing all types of assistance for setting up equipment, furniture, and necessary food Licences in the center.
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CAPACITY BUILDING
Based on the feasibility study and exposure visit we will phase out the training plan. Feasibility study and exposure visit will bring out the local needs as well as capacity-building gaps. Based on that a training calendar is prepared. Starting started from – Center Management, Business Management, Procurement, marketing, Accounting, Mobile application, Stock keeping, and many more workshops to make the center sustainable.
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VOCATIONA & NON-VOCATIONAL TRAIING
Vocational and non-vocational training is given to the small and marginal producers. Helping them emerge as Micro-entrepreneur and become self-sustainable.As per SEWA’s experience of working in new area, typically Vocational trainings, combined with leadership training, basic Managerial training, entrepreneurial training, soft skills training would be ideal to start with.
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HANDHOLDING SUPPORT
SEWA believes in hand-holding, mentoring, and providing apprenticeship opportunities to the local members in SEWA’s micro-enterprises, in order to help them become confident and skilled to run and manage their enterprises. This process normally takes a period of 3 years to 5years, till the sisters become self-sustainable.