Goal: to ensure work and income security, food security and social security for all its members and to promote women’s leadership at the micro, meso and macro levels. SEWA caters to the childcare needs of women informal workers through the Sangini cooperative, serving SEWA members across India.
Brief description: The organization’s cooperative childcare service, Sangini, is owned and managed by SEWA shareholders. The goal is to enable its members to work and ensure girls can regularly attend basic education. Parents are required to pay 10–15% of the service’s operating costs, with the bulk of the remaining funding coming from private sources such as charities and the government.