1. S.E.W.A.
Self Employed Women's Association
SEWA is a trade union registered in 1972. It is an organisation of poor, self-employed women workers. These are women who earn a living through their own labour or small businesses. They do not obtain regular salaried employment with welfare benefits like workers in the organised sector. They are the unprotected labour force of our country. Constituting 93% of the labour force, these are workers of the unorganised sector. Of the female labour force in India, more than 94% are in the unorganised sector. However their work is not counted and hence remains invisible. In fact, women workers themselves remain uncounted, undercounted and invisible.
SEWA Services
Supportive services like savings and credit, health care, child care, insurance, legal aid, capacity building and communication services are important needs of poor women. If women are to achieve their goals of full employment and self-reliance, these services are essential. Recognising the need for supportive services, SEWA has helped women take a number of initiatives in organising these services for themselves and their SEWA sisters.
Role of SEWA in Garment industries
They help to get a better environment for the women who struggle to get employed.
SEWA provides loan, machines, and introduce new styles and patterns in the garment industry to get a decent pay.
2. S.T.F.C.
SEWA Trade Facilitation Center
In response to the demand for creating sustainable livelihood strategies for the poorest of the poor women producers, the SEWA Trade Facilitation Center (S.T.F.C.) was established in May 2003 as the commercial arm of SEWA by more than 15000 women artisans in the textiles and handicrafts sector.
The vision of STFC was to ensure that craftswomen in the informal sector have socio-economic security and full employment by building a grassroot business enterprise of artisans
The main objective is creating value for its members by developing, manufacturing, marketing and selling its member's craft thru textile based and similar products and ensuring livelihood security.
STFC's Vision
providing its members long term livelihood security by selling the embroideries and craft skills of its members.
Enroll increasing number of rural artisan women into its membership.
Become the largest organised producer and seller of handcrafted textile based embroideries in the world.
revive and grow the ethnic embroidery skill of its members communities.
Evolve a Business model which balances between the livelihood and market
3. Tsunamika
Tsunamika was formed for the remembrance of the people effected by tsunami
The tsunamika project was conceives by Upasana design studio, an Auroville- based garment design unit in Puducherry, Tamil Nadu. Upasana not only trains women to make the dolls but also provides the raw materials, largely the left over fabrics. the fisher-women threads the waste cloth together into little dolls and also earn a livelihood. today about 200 women from the fishing community actively participate in this project.
4.Anti- Fur
The anti-fur society is a group of dedicated, committed and caring volunteers working around the world to better the lives of fur-bearing animals.
The focus is to form groups or support existing onces in areas notorious for cruel methods of fur production. By informing consumers across the globe, and hope to encourage them to make conscientious choices by not purchasing fur or leather products as well as other animal based products.
5. P.E.T.A.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an American animal rights organization based in Norfolk, Virginia. It is the largest animal rights organisation in the world, with more than 6.5 million members and supporters.
PETA focuses its attention on the four areas in which the largest number of animals suffers the most intensely for the longest periods of time:
in laboratories
in the food industry,
in the clothing trade and
in the entertainment sector.
PETA also work on a variety of other issues, including the cruel killing of rodents, birds and other animals who are often considered as pests as well as as cruelty to domesticated animals.
PETA works through public education, cruelty investigations, research, animal rescue, legislation, special events, celebrity involvement, and other protest campaigns.
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