Activities
Mahila SEWA Trust is committed to strengthen women workers in the informal economy. The activities carried out by are as follows.
- Trainings
- Social Security Programmes
- Housing programmes
- Relief and Rehabilitation
- Communication
Trainings :
These poor women are illiterate or semi-literate who earn living through their own labour. They are broadly involved in following occupations.
- Traditional Skills - like weaving, hand block printing, tie and dye, hand embroidery, applique work, mirror work, bead work and so on…
- Family occupations - like cattle rearing, tailoring, blacksmiths, potters, small and marginal farmers and salt farmers.
- Traditional / Manual unsecured work – Like waste, pickers, construction workers cleaners, hand cart pullers, head loaders, agriculture labors,
- Vending - Vegetables and Fruits selling in the baskets sitting on the footpaths or standing in the streets pavements with hand carts, old cloth selling, fish vending, toys and miscellaneous house hold goods selling, producing and selling snacks.
All this work involves long working hours, hard, tedious and tiresome laborious work in harsh conditions giving meagre income. To bring them out of this vicious cycle and drudgery, it is imperative to equip them with skill enhancement, skill diversification and new skilled work trainings so as to transform them from labourers to skilled workers to enable them to earn higher wages, and respectful living.