Homeworkers have their resources and emphases in common: Homenet

Factory workers in Chennai

cooperative attitude is required for homeworkers in order to pool their resources and focus issues, says Homenet an association of home-based workers in South Asia. To guide and respond to the various questions of homeworkers based organizing Homenet an international conference in Ahmedabad on March 20.

"In an increasingly connected world, we need to pool our resources and focus problems with a cooperative rather than a competitive spirit," said Renana Jhabvala, President of HomeNet South Asia (HNSA).

After HNSA there are approximately 100 million domestic workers worldwide with approximately 50 million of them live in South Asia. Homeworkers are among the most vulnerable of all the informal sector and work (independently) in or near their homes they own or subcontracting workers.

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Firoza Mehrotra, strategy consultant HNSA said, "they remain public invisible Typically and politics is important for the poor, the organizations and networks to link that will help increase your visibility and voice, and offer workers home skills, employment opportunities. , information and other benefits that can contribute to the technical work of the business. "

Working at home is a major source of employment for women and contribute to the household, national and global economies. In many parts of the world, the social demands on women perform often to work at home to meet the nature of the tasks entrusted.

HomeNet South Asia is expected to recognize a platform for homeworkers media and enable sustainable living as part of the latter, the association, the international conference "Celebrating organize homeworkers: Twenty years the action of the time" to Ahmedabad in Gujarat.

Jhabvala said. "It is precisely with this thought that HNSA to present all members invited by organizations in Asia Pool and share experiences This is where the global experience and knowledge distilled decades work that will be very useful, this. This will help us to better to understand and address issues for workers, better and faster "at home together.