Global Fairness Initiative

Partners

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Partership

For over 20 years GFI
has put partners first

The working poor know best the barriers to creating security in their lives and livelihoods so we listen to workers first. We partner with local organizations workers trust to ensure that our initiatives belong to workers first.

Learn about GFI's partnership with with India's Self-Employed Women's Association to create new livelihoods for a new generation of SEWA members.

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Partner Profiles

SEWA (India)

Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA), is the single largest Central Trade Union for the women workers in the informal economy in India. We are registered under the Trade Union's Act,1926 on April 12, 1972 with registration number G.938. We are 2.9 million women members of the SEWA from across the country working in different trades and speaking diverse languages. In SEWA, we believe in the power of inclusivity and oneness.

Pagsung Shea Processors and Nut Pickers Association (Ghana)

Unique among Shea butter processing groups, the Pagsung Shea Butter Processors and Shea Nut Pickers Association is exclusively owned by the women processors themselves. Founded and incorporated in October 2008, the Pagsung Association comprises 18 processing groups with over 750 members. All members are economically challenged women from the Northern regions of Ghana.

Ciudad Saludable (Peru)

Ciudad Saludable is a Peruvian NGO belonging to the Grupo Ciudad Saludable with Peru Waste Innovation SAC, and Healthy Cities International Foundation. The Grupo Ciudad Saludable was founded to change the perception of the 109,000 impoverished and excluded recyclers in Peru and to economically empower these recyclers while developing solutions to the problem of inadequate solid waste management in Peru’s cities and municipalities