On 22nd December, forty students of UWSB jointly with KCEIL organised a trip to SEWA Bank for semester 4 & 6 students respectively.

The visit was organised and coordinated by Prof Bushra Kureshi from UWSB and Ms Preeti Das from KCEIL, Karnavati University.

The students learnt about the history of SEWA bank and their day-to-day management activities alongside learning concepts on unions, banks and women associations with their women warrior stories.

SEWA Cooperative Federation’s history can be traced back to the struggle for workers’ rights led by the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). Set up in 1972, the SEWA is a trade union that promotes the rights of women working in the informal economy. It has more than 1.5 million women informal worker members. A small group of poor self-employed women residing in Ahmedabad, who were members of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) a trade union of unorganized sector women workers, realized a need for “PROMOTING” THEIR OWN Financial Institution They were the ones who started work on Microfinance for the poor. In a country, where nearly 90 per cent of the poor workforce was in the informal sector, making financial inclusion.