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| UPDATE:Hillary to meet SEWA women tomorrow |
| Press Trust of India / Mumbai Jul 17, 2009, 17:50 IST |
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US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton's hectic schedule here tomorrow includes an interaction with volunteers and artisans of the Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), a non-government organisation founded by Ela Bhatt.
Hillary would visit the SEWA centre at Hansiba Creations on Napean Sea Road and interact with women artisans, association sources said.
A SEWA member Gauri Ben will gift the US Secretary of State a richly embroidered toran. She will also be presented with two exclusive kurtas designed by SEWA for her daughter Chelsea.
In 2000, when Hillary's husband Bill Clinton was in Mumbai as the US president along with Chelsea, he visited an antique shop in south Mumbai.
Bhatt and other key members of SEWA are expected to update Hillary on the progress of Global Women's Trade Finance Council, founded in 2007 in New York with Clinton and Bhatt as co-chairpersons.
The Council aims at exploring ways and means to highlight women's efforts at the global level and link them to the world markets. Hillary first visited the SEWA headquarters at Ahmedabad in 1995 as the US First Lady.
The council was founded in 2007 in New York with Clinton and Bhatt as co-chairpersons, Dave said.
Its objectives are to explore ways and means to highlight women's efforts at the global level and link them to the world markets.
Clinton had visited SEWA headquarters in Ahmedabad in 1995 as US first Lady.
Over 200 women activists, at Clinton's suggestion, formed the Women & Global Markets to establish a link between the underprivileged and the world market players. It works in the field of textiles, garments and agriculture, Dave said.
SEWA, established in 1972, also runs a womens bank, housing and social security schemes and takes up the causes of the people living and working in the lowest strata of society, Nanavaty said.
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