Indian Academy For Self Employed Women
Indian Academy For Self Employed Women is a non-profit organisation, established in 1991 that works primarily in the domain of Research, Skill Development, Art & Culture, Employment, Health, Energy & Environment, Gender, Education and Child & Youth Development. Its primary office is in Ahmedabad, Gujarat.
Supports women and girls to live with dignity through holistic development, social entrepreneurship and inclusion
http://www.sewaacademy.org
Child & Youth Development Education Gender Energy & Environment Health Employment Art & Culture Skill Development Research
E/17298/Ahmedabad
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Teaches through formal learning environment with focus on the learning strategies such as discussions, demonstrations and participatory exercises. Learn through experience in the fields like:
-Health
-Environmental studies
-Society and culture
Provides education in four major areas:
- Skills training
- Literacy
- Research and
Skills Training Program
Aims at holistic approach of overall development and increasing employability, improving status as workers, building the confidence and encouraging through capacity building.
Programs provide women with opportunities for self-examination, leading to learn ways to improve their own situations.
Literacy Program
This program recognizes literacy with respect to different things for different groups, such as literacy means something different to a home-based worker as compared to the street vendor.
This also provides literacy on social issues, government resources and the digital world.
This program has benefited women as follows:
- understands the socio-economic conditions and concerns for women in the informal economy.
- documented the history of women's struggles for economic and social security.
- evaluate interventions and campaigns of the association.
- bring research findings into the mainstream.
Works as research partners with other organizations as shared below:
- Samarth: to evaluate success of Hepatitis B education campaigns.
- Association for Stimulating Know How (ASK): to enumerate a householder survey around toilet access.
- Women in Informal Employment: Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO) to study how technology impacts the working poor.
- SEWA Bank: needs assessment.
Communication Program
Connects self-employed women to each other, to the public, to policy makers, and to government officials through various platforms such as magazines, newsletters, videos, radio.
Educates workers on various issues affecting their lives such as legal concerns, health promotion, nutrition education, Government policies and programs for the self-employed awareness and National Development Plans and Programs.
Skill Education and Communication Centers Program
Enhances skills in traditional areas like incense rolling and kitemaking. Women also learn new skills in tailoring, beauty care and making soft toys and jewelry. Claims that the participating women have seen an increase in their employment rates from 26 to 50 per cent and have doubled their monthly income.
Organizes cultural participation to promote peace and solidarity between religions. The girls and women who have never been to any community hall participates in thematic skits, garba and raas folk dance, adivasi dance, role play and folk music while celebrating and learning about the rich cultures in India.
Krishna Bhuvan, Ellisbridge Corner, Opp. Sakar II, Town Hall
The Indian Academy for Self Employed Women (IASEW) or SEWA Academy is a sister organisation of SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association) based in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India. Initiated by SEWA as an activity in 1991, IASEW got registered as an autonomous charity trust in 2005 and has been since trying to make itself sustainable. IASEW is the focal point for all of training, capacity-building, research and communication efforts. IASEW functions as our members' 'university', introducing the poor informal sector women to formal learning environment. IASEW primary objective is to take the poor informal sector women's movement forward. It does this in four ways - through training and capacity-building, action-oriented research focusing on poor women members, and by building strong communication channels, within the organization as well as with the outside world.1. Training; IASEW's trainings are driven by the core belief that everyone has potential and ability. The training programmes are a collective approach to overall development of women and the capacity- building programmes cut across all the requirements. The programmes help to develop women's self-esteem, confidence and leadership skills. The expertise from SEWA's sister organizations, which are autonomous but integrated, enriches the training programmes and vice versa.2. Research; IASEW has been involved in research related work since the inception of SEWA in 1972. Thus, IASEW's Research division was setup in the year 1991. The research conducted at IASEW always had its focus on the poor self employed, on their present living conditions, challenges and struggles. Ours is an action-oriented approach to make an impact at the policy level.3. Literacy; The women participating in trainings provided by IASEW were both literate and illiterate, from different areas of city and villages. The illiterate women said: 'We would like to study'! The enthusiasm led to the initiation of Literacy Classes in 1992. The members sought education, which was easy to understand and which would help them in life.Mobile Van: The Mobile Van was started on 3 October 2009. Equipped with video, CDs on issues related to poor informal sector, and Megaphone, the Mobile Van visits the people in their neighbourhoods and arranges replays of video and radio. Library: Libraries have been set up in working class areas. This was initiated from February 2003. Akashganga Club: Akashganga is a magazine for young girls, initiated by IASEW. The variety of activities undertaken by the club are story-telling, hygiene education, adolescent fairs, stage shows, sports day and cultural programmes, festival related programmes, fancy dress competition, exposure trips to science city, and Gandhi ashram.Cultural Programmes: Cultural programmes are organized to present the talent of community women and girls. 4. Communication;Communication plays a very crucial role in the lives of poor women workers. There is a great need for communication, between self employed women, and between them and the public, policy planners, and other government officials. The different print media of communication are Anasooya, Akashganga, E-newsletter, and electronic media of communication are Video SEWA and Rudi no Radio.
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