Clinton will spend about an hour from 11.30 am interacting with the grass root leaders, along with other volunteers and artisans of SEWA.
US secretary of State Hillary Clinton will visit her favourite place in the city - the trade retail outlet of the Gujarat-based Self Employed Women's Association (SEWA) tomorrow.
"Clinton, who has a decade long association with the NGO will take time off her busy schedule during her three-day Mumbai visit to meet the artisans who will be coming here from Gujarat," SEWA's director Reema Nanavaty said.
Clinton will spend about an hour from 11.30 am interacting with the grass root leaders, along with other volunteers and artisans of SEWA, a non-government organisation founded by Ela Bhatt, she said.
"The US secretary of State is expected to go around and view the collections at the SEWA centre's retail outlet at Hansiba Creations on Napean Sea Road, Malabar Hills in south Mumbai and also interact with our shareholders and women artisans during her visit," Nanavathy said.
Clinton will also be discussing ways in which to alleviation poverty through trade, she said.
SEWA leaders, including Bhatt, whom Clinton always describes as her hero, Nanavaty and others will update Clinton on the progress and current status of Global Women's Trade Finance Council, CEO of SEWA Trade Facilitation Centre at Malabar Hills, Mona Dave said.
The council was founded in 2007 in New York with Clinton and Bhatt as co-chairpersons, Dave said.
Its objectives are to explore ways and means to highlight women's efforts at the global level and link them to the world markets.
Clinton had visited the SEWA headquarters in Ahmedabad in 1995 as the US first Lady.
Over 200 women activists, at Clinton's suggestion, formed the Women & Global Markets to establish a link between the underprivileged and the world market players. It works in the field of textiles, garments and agriculture, Dave said.
SEWA, established in 1972, also runs a womens bank, housing and social security schemes and takes up the causes of the people living and working in the lowest strata of society, Nanavaty said.
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