On Monday, her second day in the Gujarat, the former secretary of the United States will meet with salt pan workers in Gujarat’s Surendranagar district.
During the programme, she will also announce a ‘Climate Resilience Fund’, the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) said in a statement.
Ms. Clinton will visit the shelter and salt pan of a woman farmer in Kuda desert of Surendranagar district. Some farmers will also explain to her the process of salt farming and share their experiences, it said.
She will also go to a community learning centre and take part in a roundtable discussion with SEWA leaders about the organization’s next 50 years, according to the statement.
Ms. Clinton honoured SEWA’s founder and well-known social activist Ela Bhatt at a ceremony on Sunday in Ahmedabad to mark the union’s 50th anniversary.
She stated during the event that the heat brought on by climate change is a new challenge for women working in the informal economy and that a global climate resilience fund will help to address this issue.
A group of concerned people has come together to help start the Climate Resilience Fund which will be the first-of-its-kind in the world, Ms. Clinton said.