AHMEDABAD: In what has created a controversy of sorts,Ahmedabad-based Council for Social Justice (CSJ) has in a letter to Sewa Bank, affiliated with Self Employed Women's Association (Sewa), alleged ...

I recently met executives and members of the board at SEWA Bank in Ahmedabad, India — a bank founded in 1974 by women for poor, self-employed women. The leadership, operation heads and board members ...

AHMEDABAD: Long before microfinance became the buzzword in the financial world, Sewa or the Self-employed Women's Association had started supporting economically active but poor women. AHMEDABAD: Long ...

Nanuben Vittalbhai is an old clothes vendor. She and her husband grew papayas on their family’s land. But they couldn’t make a living, and so with Rs 7 (US $ 0.06) they arrived in Ahmedabad city, ...

Ahmedabad-based Shree Mahila SEWA Sahakari Bank may raise $10 million in funding from International Financial Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of World Bank. Gujarat-based SEWA Bank, part ...

In a targeted effort aimed at spreading financial literacy among poor self-employed women, Ahmedabad-based Mahila SEWA (Self Employed Women's Association) Cooperative Bank will be launching financial ...

For women of Gomtipur, a small community on the outskirts of Ahmedabad, Jayashree Vyas, Chairman, Shri Mahila Sewa Sahakari Bank , is a messiah. "Thanks to Jayashree behn and Sewa Bank, I have learnt ...

About 20 per cent of the total, who are into garment-making overcame the shortfall in demand by adding new lines of activities like making masks with the help of working capital from the bank.

Ahmedabad-based Shree Mahila SEWA Sahakari Bank may raise USD 10 mn in funding from International Financial Corporation (IFC), the private investment arm of World Bank. Gujarat-based SEWA Bank, part ...