HomeNet Africa held a preparatory meeting for the HNI Congress in the month of February, 2023 in Entebbe, Uganda. Were present affiliates delegates from Kenya (10) , Uganda (10) and Tanzania (5) together with observer participants from South Africa (1) and Ethiopia (1), who were joined by a HNI delegation of 3, the Ngalo Buwereza...
HomeNet South Asia (HNSA) in partnership with its members HomeNet Pakistan (HNP) in Pakistan, Social Awareness and Voluntary Association (SAVE) & Self-Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) Bharat in India and SAARC Business Association of Home-Based Workers (SABAH) Nepal in Nepal developed the report on “The Decent Work Deficit of Homeworkers in Selected Cities in South Asia”. Data...
HomeNet South Asia (HNSA), in collaboration with WIEGO, hosted a virtual parallel event at NGO CSW67 Event on “Home-Based Workers – Organising for Change”. A total of 115 participants were present virtually in this virtual session. In this panel discussion, home-based workers from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, South Africa, and Uganda had the chance to share...
Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. Touted as the world’s largest slum, Dharavi is home to approximately 1 million people and 15,000 single-room factories. It has the highest population density of 0.34 million per km2. Most of Dharavi’s 55,000 dwellings are 1-room tenements no larger than 100 sq. feet, with very dim...
Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. Savitri was born and raised in Dharavi and lives there with her parents. Touted as the world’s largest slum, Dharavi is home to approximately 1 million people and 15,000 single-room factories. It has the highest population density of 0.34 million per km2. Most of Dharavi’s 55,000...
Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. At 5,000+ years of existence, the Indian saree is considered to be among the oldest form of garment in the world still in existence. With that rich history, the Saree is an institution in itself. ...
Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India.
Maharashtra’s farmers usually celebrate the festival ‘Pola’ in August, a festival to celebrate, worship and thank their bulls and oxen that labour on their fields round the year....
Written by Jarina Shaikh and Jyoti Baiballi from LEARN, India. How do our nations handle the millions of tonnes of fabric and garment waste generated every year? Often these garments and textiles go to the landfills or end up in the oceans; their materials and dyes cause pollution of soil, groundwater, seas and oceans along the...
The workshop on SSE was conducted on November 2nd, 2022, in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, with 30 participants, from the six HNSEA country members, and guest speakers from the International Labour Organization (ILO), Asian Solidarity Economy Council (ASEC) and HomeNet International (HNI), both in person and online.The objectives were to learn and confirm the SSE values...
On October 20th, home-based workers from around the world celebrated the International Home-Based Workers Day. All the way from Nepal, to the gates of India's Labour Department, and the streets of Pakistan, to regional gatherings in Brazil and singing and dancing in Kenya – and in many more countries – HBWs gathered in festive mode,...
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