ELA BHATT

WOMEN ENTREPRENEUR

ZAINAB
11B
 INTRODUCTION
- Ela Bhatt was born on September 7, 1933 in
Ahmedabad, Gujarat, India.

- Ela Bhatt is an Indian Lawyer and Social

worker who has fought for the rights of self
employed womens.

- She saw conditions of self employed women's

in Southeast Asia.

- She set up an organization called SELF

EMPLOYED WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
(SEWA).
 self - Employed Women's Association
- Its was Established in 1972 by Shri Elaben Bhatt.

- Over 1 million poor and Self employed women's joined

the association.

- It is the largest recognized National Union of Informal

Sector workers.

JOINING THREE MOVEMENTS:

1) Trade Union Movement
2) Labour Movement
3) Women's Movement
“It is the womens who are the leaders
in change and without their
participation poverty can never be
removed.”
—ELA BHATT
 WHY WAS IT CREATED?
Three Movements:
Gandhian Ethics:
1) Trade union To Improve lives 1) Non-Violence
Movement. of Social 2) Truth
2) Women's Groups. 3) Unity of
Movement.
Workers
3) Labour Movement

2 MAIN
GOALS
1) Full Employment
2) Full Reliance
CREATION - INITIAL OPPORTUNITIES
Wrote article in local
Self Employed Observed the serious
newspaper about the
Women’s working situations like:
situation due to unfair
as cartpullers and - Low wages
treatment by the cloth
headloaders. - Poor housing
merchants

SEWA organized
SEWA witnessed campaigns to protect
small victories in vegetable vendors from
the 1st year. harassments.
 CREATION - CHALLENGES
STORY OF SEWA BANK

Overcoming finance problem Many illiterate people were

was the first major challenge incapable of paperwork for
for SEWA. opening a bank account.

Some women were Self- Employed Women's

vendors and hawkers faced problems of non-
and needed only small ownerships due to
amounts. traditional system.

Despite their hard work, entrepreneurship, Self

Employed women's were trapped in violent
cycle of poverty and low productivity.
 CREATION - OVERCOMING
In 1973, they decided to
open special bank for self-
CHALLENGES
Opening of bank was easy
task because it required
employed women to
Rs. 1 lakh in share capital.
overcome poverty.

SEWA members The leaders namely convincing

were poorest of the Registrar Office that poor
poor with no and illiterate women were
income or savings. capable of constituting a credible
bank.

In 1974, SEWA succeeded in

launching Mahila SEWA Sahakari
Bank. Which is now considered as
women's microfinance.
 MOTTO FOR THIS
VENTURE

“WE ARE POOR BUT WE ARE SO

MANY”
- Chandaben
 QUOTES BY ELA BHATT
"Values are most
important. “It is our moral
Democratic values failure that we
have to be instilled
still tolerate
from childhood and
the child sees at an poverty”
early stages in life
in every situation in
society."

“I relish simplicity
“Non- violence is as an all
not passive idea. It comprehensive
is ethical activism value”
at its political best”
THANK YOU