Former US First Lady who visited India to attend Isha Ambani's wedding function, revisisted Gujarat's Self Employed Women's Assosiation (SEWA) in Ahmedabad after nearly 23 years.
Clinton met a women named Ela Bhatt in 1995 in India who started an organisation in 1972 to give small loans to women in order to help the find fulfillment in their work and contribute to their family's well-being.
"On my first visit to their headquarters in Ahmedabad in 1995, SEWA's 140,000 members included some of the poorest women in India with the least access to education. Some had lived in purdah until their husbands died, became disabled, or left. Many had struggled day to day to support their families," Clinton wrote in an Instagram post.
About her first women to SEWA, Clinton said, "I'll never forget the sight of thousands of women in every color of sari sharing how SEWA had changed their lives by giving them freedom and opportunity. When we finished talking, the women sang “We Shall Overcome” in Gujarati."
Clinton's visit to SEWA after 23 years was nothing but inspiring as the organisation with over a million memebers in 2009 has now grown two to three generations and is now about two million memebers strong.
"Ela’s work is fundamentally about fairness. Every person should have the chance to achieve his or her dreams and make the most of their God-given potential—no matter how rich or poor and no matter whether they work in a factory or a home or on the side of a road. I'm so inspired by these women and I can't wait to see all they continue to overcome and achieve," Clinton wrote.
