Meetings With Migrant Women Labourers

Jandaksha also engages with migrant women labourers who come to Udaipur and with the women of those migrant families who come to Udaipur on an irregular basis. Women are being linked to the center through skill enhancement trainings and meetings at chowktis and bastis. Efforts are also being made to organize the women labourers into collectivescand develop an uderstanding of their issues. A good beginning to this has been made with domestic workers.

Womens Counselling Cell :- Jandaksha Trust work on the problems faced by women migrant labour found that these women suffer work place sexual harassment by contractors and employers, as well as by male labourers, and often became the victims of physical and social abuse. Family and community members also do not give them the respect and women also face physical assault & domestic violence. Jandaksha started a womens counselling cell to givee migrant women labourers a place where they could take these problems with the objective of reducing harassment and abuse of this vulnerable sector, thereby reducing their mental tension.