As Lakshmi sits outside her door and talks, her fingers move fast on a piece of cloth she is sewing with a needle and a coloured thread. The faster she completes stitching, the more the pieces she can finish in the day. These are tiny bits and pieces, which would be joined together later and stuffed with cotton to form decorative elephants. More women in the neighbourhood and in the embroidery centre of Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) in New Ashok Nagar, Delhi, where Lakshmi resides, are working on sewing beads and laces to finish decorative elephants for an order from a large export house.

><table width='100%' border=0 cellspacing=0><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 18px; FONT-WEIGHT: bold; COLOR: #0253B7;'><B>Sreelatha Menon:</B> Home as work place</td></tr><tr><tr><td style='FONT-FAMILY: Arial; FONT-SIZE: 11px; '>SEWA replaces the cooperative model with a producer company involving Delhi

Sreelatha Menon: Home as work place

SEWA replaces the cooperative model with a producer company involving Delhis home-based workers.

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