How your donations help us
Rahul, 17, from India, has been a domestic worker since he was eleven. He could not go to school as his employer didn't give him time off. He got support through Home for all. He partners Udhyog and now he is the leader in his community helping other child domestic workers to make changes in their lives.
Rihanna was 14 when her uncle arranged for her to work in Nigeria, 300 kilometres away from home. She had no one to turn to.
“Every day I did all household chores like cleaning, sweeping, swabbing, dusting, washing clothes and utensils, cooking and I also gave massage to the old lady every day. In return, they regularly scolded me and verbally abused me, and threatened to throw me down from the 8th floor.”
A few months into her job, Rihanna's uncle arrived and took her wages. Rihanna was left with nothing. She was not paid again. She was desperate. One day another domestic worker in her block told Ayanna about our partners, the International Domestic Workers Movement (INDWM), and gave her their local office address. Rihanna escaped and told the INDWM her story. They brought in the police who took her to her employer’s home.
“As soon as they saw me, the ladies of the house accused me of stealing and threatened to put me in jail. One of them wanted to beat me in front of the police. But they defended me.”The INWDM and the police persuaded Ayanna’s employer to pay the wages owed to her. Now she is 21, Rihanna has to decide what to do next. She is now working with our organization in rescuing children like her.
With your support, our parterners can help thousands of children like them.
$20 could pay for a training session for three local support workers in Philippines so they can identify cases of slavery and alert local authorities
$60 could pay for 40 potential migrants from the rural areas of Bangladesh to learn about the dangers of migrating to the Middle East for domestic work
$70 could pay for one police officer in the Australia to be trained on how to recognise and protect victims of slavery
$600 could pay for 50 women of slave descent in West Africa to set up income generating activities together
$1,500 would allow representatives of communities in Bangladesh to organise a campaign calling for an end to child begging
$7,000 would pay for six herds of 35 goats for communities established by former slaves in Niger, allowing them to make and sell goat’s cheese to support themselves
$30,000 could help us protect 2,000 labourers from debt bondage in 300 brick kilns in India, ensuring that they can access their legal rights and entitlements, release 500 of their children from child labour, so that they can attend school.