The National Domestic Workers’ Movement [Registered as National Domestic Workers’ Welfare Trust under the NDWWT Bombay Public Trust Act 1950, Regd. No. E-17263- (Mumbai). has been at the forefront of championing the rights of domestic workers, children in domestic work and migrant domestic workers, since 1985. Today our work is spread across 16 states of India, engaging nearly 200,000 domestic workers in major cities, towns and villages. Read more…
For three decades NDWM has championed the cause of domestic workers in India, and led a strong grass roots movement to understand their challenges and address the problems they face. It initially started by working on three major issues faced by the domestic workers, namely :
These challenges led to the three objectives of the movement that we pursue till today and which have become more meaningful than ever:
To create a just society for all domestic workers, where they are treated with dignity and justice, their rights are upheld, their contribution recognized and their voices heard. We also envision a society where child domestic work is completely abolished and children in work enjoy mainstream education and fuller childhood.
As a Movement we commit ourselves to promote and ensure participation of domestic workers in their struggle for rights and justice. We empower domestic workers to fight against all forms of injustice and discrimination.
Felix D’Souza
Felix D’Souza has championed the cause of workers’ rights in the city of Mumbai, over the last three decades. He has distinguished himself as an able administrator for the National Domestic Workers’ Movement. As an effective motivational speaker, he relishes the opportunities to dialogue firsthand with groups of domestic workers and child rights group members, on his tours all around the country.
Lancy Pinto
Maggie Fernandes
Christin Mary
Sr. Christin Mary has been a part of the movement to organize domestic workers and protect the rights of the children since 2006. The Movement’s involvement with Domestic Workers has grown under her leadership first as a State Coordinator of Maharashtra and now the National Coordinator for National Domestic Workers’ Movement’s operations in the 17 states. She strongly believes in a rights based approach towards empowering domestic workers.
Christin Mary
Sr. Christin Mary has been a part of the movement to organize domestic workers and protect the rights of the children since 2006. The Movement’s involvement with Domestic Workers has grown under her leadership first as a State Coordinator of Maharashtra and now the National Coordinator for National Domestic Workers’ Movement’s operations in the 17 states. She strongly believes in a rights based approach towards empowering domestic workers.
Amala Valarmathi
Lima Rose
Sr. Jeanne Devos has been honoured with many awards for her remarkable dedicated service to humanity.
In February 2000 she was awarded the ‘Peace prize’ in Belgium by national consensus and Priyadarshini Award in 2012. She was one of the 1000 Women for Peace nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize in 2005