National Domestic Workers’ Welfare Trust

Mission

As a Movement we commit ourselves to work for: 1. Dignity of domestic work and all domestic workers 2. Justice for all domestic workers and workers rights 3. Empowerment of domestic workers 4. Recognising child domestic work as child labour to be abolished and giving children the right to mainstream education 5. Crisis intervention with rehabilitation, legal and medical aid 6. Networking on local, national and international level

Programs

Identification of at-risk groups and trafficking agents Rescue and rehabilitation of children and young women from forced labour Capacity building of the beneficiaries, staff and stakeholders

Current Projects on GlobalGiving

Rescue 2000 Women and Girls From Forced Labor

Empower and Protect Indian Women Domestic Workers

Personnel Overview

Dr. Jeanne Devos, ICM - National Coordinator
Jeanne Devos ICM has lived in India for 41 years. She worked first with deaf children in Madras. In 1966 she started the Indian YCS/YSM and later YSMD and action groups and later became Asian coordinator. In 1985 with CBCI she started the Domestic Workers' Movement and subsequently founded groups at a national level. She was nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005.

Ms. Anjali Shukla - Project Coordinator
Campaign and implementation of a nationwide project for protection of children, girls and women from tribal belts of Jharkhand, Chattisgarh and Orissa against trafficking and forced labour, especially child domestic workers, brick kiln workers, to major cities in India who are exploited and vulnerable to physical, emotional and sexual abuses. Trafficking is becoming very organized in India.

Enid DCosta - Assistant - Communciation & Networking
BA (Hons) English Literature from Mumbai University. Took up short assignments, documenting workshops for Unicef on border district cluster strategy review, and for Most, Usaid and Care on strategy for strengthening primary (routine) immunization and micronutrients delivery system in Jharkhand. Also on team assisting Stop TB program for WHO.

Personnel Statistics

Dr. Jeanne Devos, ICM,
National Coordinator
Founded in 1985
Employees: 192
Volunteers: 150