Systems are needed, for example for management, accounting, skill development and MIS to serve the needs of the working poor. - Ela Bhatt

SEWA is about political action, and that has always been at the heart of what we have done. It is about changing the balance of power in favor of the poor. That has meant constant tension, with big farmers, moneylenders, contractors, big traders, government, local panchayats, and so on.

Teachers do not care…It is not because teachers are badly paid and the teachers are organized but they do not teach. If we don’t respect them it is because we see them doing other business than teaching.

Every human being has something, a spiritual element, that makes them want to do better, to reach higher.