The Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers Welfare Trust

Working towards dignity, rights, and better livelihoods for domestic workers and their families.

NDWM

National Domestic Workers’ Movement (NDWM) is a right based people’s movement. It was registered as National Domestic Workers’ Welfare Trust under the Bombay Public Trust Act 1950. It took shape over the last 30 years breaking the bondage of slavery and empowering domestic workers in India. NDWM also campaigns for the protection and the rights of child domestic workers with constant rescue, rehabilitation and reintegration operations. NDWM is concerned about women, young girls and children leaving their villages of poverty and reaching cities only to be subjected to bonded labours behind closed doors. Our efforts in 16 states are creating the spirit to come out and fight for their rights. The movement had its origins in early eighties in Chennai. Dr. (Sr.) Jeanne the founder, focused on groups of domestic workers trying to give them a voice and listen and respond to the experiences of indignity, abuse and exploitation at the hands of their employers. In 1985, Sr. Jeanne started multiple groups in Mumbai and Chennai to organise domestic workers and child domestic workers culminating in the formation of National Domestic Workers’ Movement, which has spread over 16 States.

TNDWWT

The Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers Welfare Trust was registered in 2005 and has been working for the empowerment, rights, justice, dignity and welfare of Domestic Workers, Migrants and Children. Our organisation has been creating a platform in the society for less privileged Domestic Workers, Migrants and Children, by empowering them with opportunities to learn about their rights, Organising, mobilising and strengthening them, ensuring their safety, responding and intervening during crisis, advocating and lobbying for their rights and legislations by coordinating with the state, national and international organizations etc.Our work today has spread across more than 18 Districts of Tamil Nadu, viz., Kanyakumari, Ramanathapuram, Sivagangai, Nagerkovil, Tirunelveli, Tuticorin, Madurai, Theni, Dindigul, Salem, Trichy, Pudukkottai, Tanjore, Villupuram, Thiruvallur, Kanchipuram, Chengalpattu, Chennai.

Vision

As an organization we commit ourselves to promote and ensure participation of domestic workers in their struggle for rights and justice, thus to have a decent living and better working conditions for Domestic Workers

Mission

To create a just society for all Domestic Workers, where they are treated with JUSTICE and DIGNITY, their rights are upheld, contribution recognised and voices heard. The TNDWWT also envisions a society where a Child Domestic Worker is completely abolished and children enjoy mainstream education and fuller childhood.