Journalism of Courage
Ela Bhatt
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Gujarat: At SEWA event, a call to declare November 2 as Day for Informal Workers
November 06, 2024 12:10 am
Jyoti Macwan, General Secretary of SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association), said, “It is vital that the global community recognises November 2 as a day dedicated to informal workers."
Ela Bhatt, Herman Daly challenged economic theocracies that privileged profits over well-being
November 11, 2022 9:11 am
If today the difference between wealth and actual well-being is somewhat better known, it is because pioneers like Elaben and Herman worked tirelessly to challenge the dominant thinking. The dream for which they lived is not merely for more people to be kind to those at the bottom of a pyramid but rather to abolish thinking and systems that push humans and ecosystems into the shape of a pyramid
In Elaben and her work, Gandhi lived on
November 08, 2022 9:21 pm
Ela Bhatt was my spiritual mother and mentor. Her legacy lives on in the values she stood for and the work her organisation, SEWA did, in lifting millions out of poverty
A vision for women’s empowerment: the story of Ela Bhatt's SEWA
November 05, 2022 7:22 am
The efforts of Ela Bhatt's SEWA to change the lives of over 2.1 million members — and many more around the world — has long been recognised as a model for the world.
Remembering Ela Bhatt, founder of SEWA, teacher, mentor, activist
November 04, 2022 9:30 pm
Her advocacy was never strident or loud, she remained a gentle revolutionary, though never passive
Ela Bhatt: A Gandhian at heart and in her work
November 03, 2022 10:47 pm
Ela Bhatt made self-reliance the chief pillar of her work. She helped women overcome deep-rooted social and economic barriers to lift themselves out of poverty and debt and realise, as she put it, that “poverty is not a destiny”
Thousands bid tearful adieu to Ela Bhatt
November 03, 2022 11:38 pm
Members of SEWA came from districts as far as Kutch and Banaskantha, crying inconsolably. Bhatt passed away Wednesday afternoon after a brief illness. She was 89.
Ela Bhatt: A gentle revolutionary who changed millions of lives
November 13, 2022 6:36 pm
Elaben (1933-2022) was the voice of the invisible women of India's informal economy
Saddened, say PM Modi, CM Patel as tributes pour in for veteran Gandhian Ela Bhatt
November 03, 2022 2:36 am
Bhatt died in Ahmedabad after a brief illness at the age of 89.
Ela Bhatt, SEWA founder & women’s activist, dies
November 02, 2022 11:58 pm
Elaben, as she was called, founded SEWA, one of the biggest women's cooperatives and national trade unions registered in 1972 that was born out of a textile trade union.
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