WOW - Women Of The World Festival 2013: Paying For Poverty

Evidence has mounted that helping women can be a successful poverty-fighting strategy anywhere in the world. The Self Employed Women’s
Association (SEWA) was founded in India in 1972 and ever since has helped some of the country’s poorest women start businesses, raising living
standards for the women and winning a Nobel Peace Prize for the economic and social impacts of its work.

Rosie Boycott chairs a discussion with two members of the SEWA collective about why it works and how their lives have been turned around. Rosie is also joined by Becky John, of Who Made Your Pants? which employs a similar model working with women in Southampton.

Held in The Front Room.