NZEI expands horizons for 643 girls and boys
Every weekday in the evening, another 88 girls and 55 boys sit down in four new education centres around Madurai slums and villages to do their homework. Over the past year these 143 children...
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Every weekday in the evening, another 88 girls and 55 boys sit down in four new education centres around Madurai slums and villages to do their homework. Over the past year these 143 children...
Over 440 manual scavengers and overhead tank operators in the Madurai area recently received back payments thanks to their union activity. These payments were substantial, ranging from $NZ165-$724 per person, with others currently waiting...
By establishing their own cooperatives, nearly 300 Dalit workers around Madurai will now have the chance to contract directly for jobs. For 85 construction workers, previously on casual or daily wages, this provides job...
Perhaps surprisingly, in a society where traditionally girls have little value, more girls than boys are attending Tamil Nadu Labour Union evening education centres and boosting their education. As a result of the success...
Over the last three years our project partner in India, the Tamil Nadu Labour Union, has worked tirelessly to help lift hundreds of Dalit and Tribal working people out of poverty. Thanks to their...
Jeevanandhan’s days are spent in a lopsided hut down a back alley in Madurai, surrounded by metal bowls piled to the ceiling and stifling humidity. His whole life he has worked as a utensil...
The small thatch roof structures nestled amongst the sugar cane fields to the west of Madurai city go largely unnoticed by passing traffic. But it is within these simple buildings that men and women...
Meenakshi never chose the life of a cremation worker. Her husband was born into the job due to his caste and when he died 25 years ago, the responsibility for cremation work in her...
In June 2017 UnionAID volunteer and NZEI Te Riu Roa staff member Gina Lockyer visited Tamil Nadu to evaluate the project run by the TNLU providing after school education to Dalit and Tribal Children....
Old coins, waste paper, copper, plastics, wire and other metals found in household rubbish have for years provided a meagre income for rag pickers from thirteen Madurai slums. But these Dalit workers have had...
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