Sustainability Maintenance Charge

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PRESENTED BY
SEWA BHARAT
All India Federation of Self Employed Womens
Association
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PREFACE OF THE PROGRAM

• Preventing Trafficking in women and girls through
  empowerment and organising domestic workers

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OBJECTIVES

• Sensitization of domestic workers on their
  rights and work in order to have an increased
  collective strength and representation in target
  states in India.
• Enhancing skills of domestic workers and
  advocacy on their rights in public policy
  fora.
• Domestic workers organizations, related women's
  organisations, local panchayat and labour
  officers are better informed and able to take
  effective action on issues of trafficking and
  safe migration.

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IMPLEMENTING STATES

• Delhi
• Bihar
• West Bengal
• Kerala
• Udisha
• Tamilnadu

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PROBLEMS FACED BY DOMESTIC WORKERS

• No identity
• Physical and mental torture
• No decent workplace
• No leaves or rest between working hours
• Not allow to use washroom
• No minimum wages
• Gender discrimination
• No welfare benefits
• No any medical security at the time of emergency
• False promises and fraud by agents or placement
  agencies

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ADVOCACY

• Contribution in reforming National Policy of
  Domestic Workers.
• Distributed National Policy to MPs, MLAs and
  other Govt. Stakeholders for promotion.
• Supported domestic workers voice to ratify 189
  ILO Convention through signature campaign.
• Organized AAM SABHA at Jantar Mantar to
  promote domestic workers rights.
• Published pamphlets on domestic workers rights
  in several Newspapers for promotion (Times of
  India, Hindustan Times and Rastriya Sahara,
  Punjab Kesari).

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ACHIEVEMENTS

• Ensure four leaves in New Ashok Nagar, Anand
  Vihar and Dhallu Pura in Delhi through the rally
  on the occasion of Domestic Workers Day on 16th
  June.
• Facilitation to prepare 330 Ration Cards.
• Facilitation to prepare 300 Voter ID Cards.
• Facilitation to get benefit of RSBY welfare
  scheme to 213 Domestic workers.
• Facilitation to prepare 95 Aadhaar cards.
• 4376 Women Domestic workers are SEWA Members.
• 1725 Domestic workers have SEWA ID Cards.
• 7 cases have been resolved on the issues of wages
  and security.

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OUR BELIEVE IN EMPOWERMENT

• Helping them to achieve their rights
• Finding solutions to their existing problems of
  housing, regular work
• Creating their own support structures
• Improving their professional skills
• Understanding issues of workers in the informal
  sector
• Getting to know their rights
• Skills to advocate for their rights with
  employers and the government
• Relating to the larger womens workers movement
• Ability to access the welfare benefits/boards
  believe

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THANK YOU
For further information visit our site
www.sewabharat.org