Breaking Bondage and Securing Rights

Our longest running project which ended in December 2012 has targeted ending bonded labour and gaining workers and their families access to their rights since 2003. The main objectives of the project are: To democratise society at all levels, to increase the control people have over their livelihoods and the environment, to get children recognised as equal citizens and to increase the assertion of women and girls’ rights.

Over the course of this project, we have rescued around 3,179 labourers from situations of debt bondage and have had 127 million rupees worth of bonded debt extinguished. We have helped establish unions so that people understand their rights and are able to combat abuses of them and we have helped set up educational groups which empower both men, women and children.