Mois : juin 2007

Linked with GlobalGiving, with Miseror, and with Anti-Slavery International.

She is She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « I have always been interested in human rights and the dignity of every person. I felt that my actions should empower the most vulnerable and discriminated. For this reason I opted for domestic workers, be it women or children, because they have no voice, no rights. This corresponds to my understanding of slavery. What got me working was the inhuman situation of those women and children. It touched and hurt me as a woman. The urgency started after meeting the 13-year-old girl Sangeeta who was raped, pregnant and had aborted, without understanding what had happened to her » … and: « For children the time is now ».

She says also: « I have not grown tired of fighting for a full life for every domestic worker. It is my vision of a peaceful future to get domestic workers out of slavery into human dignity and justice ».

Download: A handbook on good practice in programme interventions, from Anti-Slavery International 2005.

See her website in netherlandse.

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Jeanne Devos – Belgium

Read: « Ik ben kritischer dan Moeder Theresa« .

She works for the Welfare Trust for Women and Child Domestic Workers, (named on antislavery.org, and on GlobalGiving), for the National Domestic Worker’s Movement NDWM, and for Misereor.

Jeanne Devos on the netherlandse wikipedia.

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Linked with Central Asia, Kazakhstan., and also with Rozlana Taukina – Kazakhstan.

She is one of the 1000 women proposed for the Nobel Peace Price 2005.

She says: « You cannot go ahead while sitting on your chair » … and « I am grateful to destiny that I am a mother. My unfortunate personal life and the loss of a first child depressed me. Doctors warned me of the risks if I tried to have another child. However, the thirst for the happiness of motherhood filled me so much that I took the risk. It was a difficult delivery but now I cannot imagine life without my son. Children are flowers whose aroma and beauty we enjoy and make us forget all the difficulties of the world. We try to teach and educate them but sometimes we are the ones who learn from them ».

Lazzat Ishmukhamedova – Kazakhstan

She works for the Ishenim Regional Partnership Network (named on DCCA) and for the Moldir Women’s Association MWA.

She says also: « It could be due to my active temperament that I have achieved what I have now. I am filled with joy, satisfaction and pride by what the association has achieved, a support center for children from poor families, the Moldir Micro-Credit Organization and the establishment of other self-help federations with the assistance of MWA. Presently MWA is helping to develop more NGOs to share its 11-year experience in poverty reduction in rural areas. I think the success of any enterprise depends on the ability to think positively in any situation, to set a goal and strive to achieve it regardless of all obstacles. Only then one can achieve the peak which seemed unattainable. It is not for nothing that a Kazakh proverb says, ‘Eyes are afraid but hands work ».

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