These workers are profoundly and disproportionately impacted by climate impacts - especially by extreme heat. ![]() SEWA Bharat is a labor union of 2.5 million women workers in the informal economy - approximately half of India's GDP is produced by and with informal workers. I had the opportunity to sit down with former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton after a couple of exciting days of celebrating India's Self-Employed Women's Association's 50th Anniversary. The microinsurance initiative will allow women to stay home during heat waves and get payments to replace lost income when extreme heat events occur. To learn more, click here □ Many women face the impossible choice to stay home and cool-protecting their health, but losing income-or to earn money, putting their health at risk. ![]() Women are profoundly and disproportionately impacted by climate change, particularly extreme heat, which claims more lives than any other climate hazard and is wreaking havoc on the lives of poor women. The Extreme Heat Income Insurance is the first investment in Arsht-Rock’s Cool Capital Stack, and the first commitment in the Global Climate Resilience Fund for Women, which was also announced yesterday by Reema Nanavaty, SEWA’s Director, and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton-a longstanding partner to SEWA and global champion for women and girls. We are co-creating this microinsurance in partnership with the Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a 50-year-old trade union in India with 2.5 million members, and Blue Marble, to help protect the lives and livelihoods of 21,000 women in seven trades in phase one of the initiative. Continued abuse of our services will cause your IP address to be blocked indefinitely.Today, at an event in the desert near Ahmedabad, India in the salt pans of Little Rann of Kutch, surrounded by 500 women workers, Arsht-Rock's Director Kathy Baughman McLeod announced the Extreme Heat Income Insurance, a climate resilience initiative to replace income lost to climate-driven extreme heat for women in the informal sector. Please fill out the CAPTCHA below and then click the button to indicate that you agree to these terms. If you wish to be unblocked, you must agree that you will take immediate steps to rectify this issue. If you do not understand what is causing this behavior, please contact us here. If you promise to stop (by clicking the Agree button below), we'll unblock your connection for now, but we will immediately re-block it if we detect additional bad behavior. ![]() Overusing our search engine with a very large number of searches in a very short amount of time.Using a badly configured (or badly written) browser add-on for blocking content.Running a "scraper" or "downloader" program that either does not identify itself or uses fake headers to elude detection.Using a script or add-on that scans GameFAQs for box and screen images (such as an emulator front-end), while overloading our search engine.There is no official GameFAQs app, and we do not support nor have any contact with the makers of these unofficial apps. Continued use of these apps may cause your IP to be blocked indefinitely. This triggers our anti-spambot measures, which are designed to stop automated systems from flooding the site with traffic. ![]()
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