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This union is helping India's women salt farmers become solar engineers

This video is part of: Centre for Nature and Climate

From salt farmers to solar technicians: India’s largest union for informal workers, the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), is spearheading a project in Gujarat that is boosting informal women workers’ incomes by up to 600%, and cutting CO2 emissions at the same time.

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