Skip to main content

Gujarat NGO 'certified' best workplace for women for second year in a row

By A Representative
SEWA Rural, a Gujarat-based NGO, has been certified as the best workplace for women for second year in row by the Great Place to Work, which, says an NGO communique, is a global authority in “creating, sustaining and recognizing high-trust, high-performance culture at workplaces”. The organization partners more than 10,000 oragnizations across 60 countries to help them build a great work culture for their employees.
Claims the NGO, SEWA Rural is “the only NGO in India certified as best workplace for women, is the only NGO in Gujarat to be in listed among top 50 midsize workplaces across the country, and is among top 10 NGOs to work for in India.”
The communique states, the NGO sets “an example for NGOs and corporates, adding it has a “whopping 54% of its workforce as women”, which has been provided with “family centered work environment”, a factor which makes it attractive to women workforce.
A voluntary service organisation operating in the rural tribal area of South Gujarat, especially in and around Jhagadia and Bharuch, the communique says, since, our inception in 1980, it is “involved in health and development activities which caters to around 2000 villages.”
The NGO contends, it provides “flexible sick leave to take care of children or aging parents; 26 weeks’ paid maternity leave, free child birth care in its hospital, and on campus creche”, adding, it has a “fully functional internal complaints committee.”

Comments

Gane said…
Thanks for the content shared. Here is an NGO working for children in India

TRENDING

Kutch water crisis deepens: Bhuj lost 54 of its 82 lakes; pastoralists migrate first time since 2018

By Rajiv Shah   A comprehensive new report by Homes In The City (HIC), a Bhuj-based civil society programme, has revealed that despite late monsoon rains easing Kutch's immediate drought conditions, the region faces a deepening water security crisis — with Bhuj having lost more than half of its historic lakes and pastoral communities forced to migrate for the first time since 2018.

From a cowshed to a home: How Mangaltai's Palawi gives HIV-positive children a second life

By Dr A.V. Yadappanavar *  In a small village called Takli, not far from the temple town of Pandharpur in Maharashtra, there is a home where children who were once abandoned because of their HIV status now find food, medicine, education, and something even rarer — love without fear. The home is called Palawi, and it was founded in 2001 by Mangal Shah, affectionately known as Mangaltai, a social worker who could not look away from children rejected by their own families.

Tribal rights under siege: Roundtable Seeks strong legal defence of land, jobs and PESA

By A Representative  Tribal rights activists, legal experts, tribal leaders, former officials and civil society representatives from Andhra Pradesh and Telangana have called  for urgent action on tribal land rights, employment and PESA safeguards. They were participating in  roundtable on Constitutional Safeguards for Scheduled Tribes in the Telugu States at the Centre for Economic and Social Studies (CESS), Hyderabad. Former Governor Ch. Vidyasagar Rao chaired the deliberations.