The Tamilnadu Domestic Workers’ Welfare Trust

Working for the upliftment of the domestic workers, children, migrants and their families

  • FCRA
  • 80G
  • 12A
  • CSR-1
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About

  • Headquarters

    Chennai, Tamil Nadu

  • Since

    2005

The Tamil Nadu Domestic Workers Welfare Trust was registered in 2005 and has been working for the empowerment, rights, justice, dignity and welfare Read moreof Domestic Workers. Ensuring Safe Migration for labour Migrants. Capacity building and ensuring quality education and promoting children participation . Our organization has been creating a platform in the society for less privileged Domestic Workers, Migrants and Children, by empowering them with opportunities to learn about their rights, Developing leadership capacity, ensuring their safety & Social Security, responding and intervening during crisis, petitioning for their rights and legislations by coordinating with the State, National and International organizations etc.


Issue

Exploitation and Lack of Legal Protection for Domestic Workers: Addressing poor working conditions, unfair wages, and lack of social security through legal awareness and policy advocacy. International Labor Migrants: Addressing unsafe migration, lack of legal support, and limited access to entitlements by providing training, legal aid, and rights awareness. Children: Lack of education, poor healthcare access, and abuse by promoting child protection, participation, and welfare services. Elderly domestic worker: Supporting elderly individuals especially those who are former domestic workers through counseling, social inclusion activities, and access to essential services and entitlements. Environmental Degradation: Promoting sustainability through community-led initiatives like tree planting, kitchen gardening, waste management, and awareness campaigns on eco-friendly practices.


Action

The organization aims to promote the rights and dignity of domestic workers by raising legal awareness, advocating for supportive policies, and facilitating the formation of workers' collectives. By ensuring access to social security, fair wages, and decent working conditions, it strives to uplift this often marginalized workforce. Additionally, the organization focuses on empowering migrant workers through pre-departure awareness and training programs, offering legal assistance, ensuring access to entitlements, and protecting their rights and livelihoods. In its efforts to protect children’s rights, the organization works to ensure access to education, healthcare, and protection, while fostering their participation in societal decisions. Furthermore, it strives to enhance the leadership and capacity of women and youth from marginalized communities through training, skill development, and awareness programs. Collaboration with government, civil society, and faith-based organizations is a key approach to policy advocacy and strengthening welfare schemes for domestic workers, migrants, and children. The overarching goal is to foster a just society rooted in justice, compassion, and solidarity. The organization is also committed to the wellbeing and dignity of the elderly, providing counseling services, promoting community engagement through recreational activities, and ensuring access to essential entitlements. In its environmental initiatives, it promotes sustainability through community awareness, tree planting, nurturing kitchen gardens, and encouraging eco-friendly practices, all while fostering active community participation in resource conservation.

Impact

- Reached and supported 20,000 domestic workers with welfare benefits including pensions, maternity, marriage, and educational support, along with access to e-Shram and Ayushman Bharat cards. - Facilitated 215 tripartite job contracts, wage increases for 3,100 workers, annual bonuses for 4,800, and awareness training for 1,700 on dignity and conduct. - Enabled social security access through registrations with welfare boards, benefiting 890 widows and destitute women. - Conducted 44 networking meetings and placed 42 domestic workers in jobs through skill-based programs. - Advocated for domestic workers’ rights through petitions signed by 602 workers, and engaged 20 MPs and 106 MLAs to push for legislative changes. - Established 200 Children’s Parliaments involving 6,000 children, educating them on rights, leadership, hygiene, and career development. - Provided empowerment programs and training to over 1,000 children on self-defense, constitutional rights, mental health, and menstrual hygiene. - Enabled children to actively participate in community development by submitting 30 petitions that led to infrastructure and public service improvements. - Raised community awareness on critical social issues like early marriage, gender equality, and substance abuse through events and street campaigns. - Supported over 7,500 migrant workers with safe migration training, legal aid, crisis intervention, and helped over 2,100 register for welfare benefits.

Programs

  • To Empower Domestic Workers

    Organizing, Mobilizing and Collective formation
    Monthly meetings on rights awareness
    Capacity building training on legal laws, skill, elimination of violence against women
    Advocacy – Consultation, Campaigns
    Networking
    Entitlements
    Crisis Intervention
    Important days

  • MIGRANTS

    Pre-migration awareness
    Pre-departure orientation training
    Crisis Intervention
    Consultation, Campaigns for their Rights
    Networking
    Entitlements

  • Children

    Children Parliament
    Child Rights Movement Meetings
    Awareness campaigns
    Consultation, advocacy
    educational support- Scholarship
    community engagement programs
    EVAWAG – adolescent girls
    Evening Learning Centers

Leadership Team

  • Virgil D’Sami

    Founder

  • Sr. Josephine Amala Valarmathi

    Chief Functionary

Demographics & Structure

  • No. of Employees

    21-50

M&E

  • Internal, External Assessors

    No

Policies

  • Ethics and Transparency Policies

    No

  • Formal CEO Oversight & Compensation Policy

    No

Political & Religious Declarations

  • On Affiliation if any

    No

  • On Deployment Bias if any

    No

Registration Details

  • PAN Card

    AABTT0862C

  • Registration ID

    346/2005

  • VO ID / Darpan ID

    TN/2018/0216325

  • 12A

    AABTT0862CE20214

  • 80G

    AABTT0862CF20214

  • FCRA

    075901456

  • CSR Registration Number

    CSR00011293

Location

  • Headquarters

    607, 6th Floor, Vasu Block, Chitra Avenue, Choolaimedu High Road, Chennai, 600094

    Directions
  • Offices in Cities

Other Details

  • Type & Sub Type

    Non-profit
    Trust