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Helping those who cannot defend themselves! For the last 15 years, Frères des Hommes and Fedina have been committed to the cause of India’s poorest populations. We are starting a new 3-year program with the following aims:

• give rights to exploited workers, by enabling the setting up of 8 new trade unions to defend workers with precarious living conditions (textile, building, domestic, agricultural or plantations workers) ;

• accompany the dalits in the establishment of their rights, by setting up training schemes and information campaigns. The dalits can then get organized and defend their rights;

• give land back to the landless by granting funds for two lawyers who will examine appeals to local and national authorities on behalf of rural populations without land or property deeds;

• organize womens’ groups by helping them unite and fight against daily violence (poverty, malnutrition, domestic violence, discriminations)

With our partner Fedina, we have learned how to improve the rights of the poor and we know that solutions exist. The following testimony is proof of this.

Selvi is a campaigner for the trade union of female domestic workers created by Fedina:
« I am a maid in Bangalore. My husband is a day labourer and has no job security . Today I must bear alone the financial responsibility for our family. At the beginning, I was a little afraid to join a trade union, but I soon realized that it was useful. Now I get together with domestic workers to make them aware of their rights, encourage them to negotiate their salary and work hours. Some women workers have obtained a salary increase and now most of them have a day off every week. »

For this programme carried out in partnership with Fedina, Frères des Hommes has received financial support from French Development Agency.