Made in India

A portrait of the women's organization in India, SEWA, a trade union for illiterate, marginalized self-employed women engaged in small cottage industries of all sorts - from selling vegetables to scavenging for recyclables. Shows how, inspired by Ghandi's principles, SEWA has grown to a membership of 217,000 with assets over $4 million in its bank.

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"Im Staate Gujarat in Indien haben Frauen unter dem Namen SEWA (Self Employed Women Association) ein neuartiges Modell einer Gewerkschaft entwickelt. 1998 zählte sie in ganz Indien 217'000 Mitglieder. Die Organisation setzt sich ausschliesslich aus Frauen zusammen, die im sogenannten 'informellen Sektor' tätig sind und verschiedenen Kasten und Religionen angehören. SEWA verfolgt das Ziel, diesen Frauen aus der wirtschaftlichen Misere herauszuhelfen. So kümmert sich die Gewerkschaft um ihre Arbeitsbedingungen, ihre Gesundheit und ihre Bildung. Der Film befasst sich mit dem Erfindungsgeist und dem Einfallsreichtum der Organisation und schildert die Arbeitsweise von SEWA durch die Stimmen von beteiligten Frauen."
"A portrait of the women's organization in India, SEWA, a trade union for illiterate, marginalized self-employed women engaged in small cottage industries of all sorts - from selling vegetables to scavenging for recyclables. Shows how, inspired by Ghandi's principles, SEWA has grown to a membership of 217,000 with assets over $4 million in its bank."@en
"Dans l'Etat de Gujerat, en Inde, des femmes ont conçu un modèle original de syndicat, sous le nom de SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association). Son but est d'organiser des travailleuses indépendantes, des femmes pauvres de religions et de castes diverses, de métiers divers. Fort de 250 000 membres, SEWA a créé sa propre banque, sous forme de coopérative. La formation de ces femmes est également d'une importance primordiale car elle permettra, par exemple, d'enrayer des épidémies par une meilleure connaissance de l'hygiène. La réalisatrice expose la démarche de ces femmes à travers le portrait de six d'entre elles."
""A portrait of SEWA, the now-famous women's organization in India that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare. SEWA, or the Self-Employed Women's Association, corresponds to the Indian word sewa, meaning service. Based in the western Indian city of Ahmedabad, a dusty old textile town on the edge of the Gujarati desert, SEWA is at its core a trade union for the self-employed. It offers union membership to the illiterate women who sell vegetables for 50 cents a day in the city markets, or who pick up paper scraps for recycling from the streets--jobs that most Indian men don't consider real work. Inspired by the political, economic and moral model advocated by Mahatma Gandhi, SEWA has grown since its founding to a membership of more than 217,000 and its bank now has 61,000 members, assets of $4 million and customers who walk in each day to deposit a dollar or take out 60 cents. Following the lives of six women involved in the organization, including Ela R. Bhatt, its visionary founder, Plattner's documentary is an important look at the power of grassroots global feminism"--Women Make Movies website."
"A portrait of the women's organization in India, called SEWA, that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare. Inspired by the political, economic and moral model advocated by Gandhi, SEWA has grown since it founding to a membership of 217,000 and its bank now has assets of over $4 million. SEWA is at its core a trade union for the self-employed that offers union membership to the illiterate women who sell vegetables, pick up scraps for recycling from the streets and engage in small cottage industries."
"A portrait of the women's organization in India, called SEWA, that holds to the simple yet radical belief that poor women need organizing, not welfare. Inspired by the political, economic and moral model advocated by Gandhi, SEWA has grown since it founding to a membership of 217,000 and its bank now has assets of over $4 million. SEWA is at its core a trade union for the self-employed that offers union membership to the illiterate women who sell vegetables, pick up scraps for recycling from the streets and engage in small cottage industries."@en