About
Social Work Self-employed women s association (sewa-Lucknow) is an autonomous organisation of chikan artisans. Impetus for setting up sewa-Lucknow came from a unicef sponsored study conducted in 1979 on the condition of chikan artisans. The study established that over 40, 000 chikan artisans working in and around Lucknow were highly exploited in the industry even as middlemen made hay. As a result, chikan artisans lived in shanty localities and suffered from poverty they and their offspring were illiterate, and their families had poor health. Objectives to ensure that chikan craftswomen get sufficient work at fair wages without exploitation by middlemen net work and partner with fair trade social minded organisations for marketing to identify and develop promising new markets for chikan products to organize chikan workers by develo