The Self-Employed Women's Association (SEWA), one of India's oldest and largest organizations supporting informal women workers, is scaling its programming to support access to health and welfare services using blockchain infrastructure built on the Algorand blockchain.
SEWA is onboarding thousands of women into a blockchain-enabled custodial wallet system through a new Digital Health Passport initiative. This system integrates with India's trusted digital identity (Aadhaar) and document-storage platforms (DigiLocker) to securely manage and verify the documentation required to access vital government programs—such as primary health care, child care, and pensions.
The initiative is designed to break one of the most persistent barriers to inclusion: lack of proper documentation. In many cases, names don't match across ID cards, paper files are lost, or the documentation simply never existed. SEWA's community-based workers, known as Aagewans, visit households across different communities in Gujarat to help women identify and upload the necessary documentation into their secure digital wallets.
Read the full announcement here.
