Notes from Archie Law, CEO of ActionAid Australia
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It’s hard to believe some supermarkets still source their products from factories that underpay their workers and subject them to horrifying working conditions.
Mercy (not pictured), is one of 500,000 women processing cashew nuts for a living in Tamil Nadu and Kerala, India. These women often suffer from dermatitis, blistering and skin discolouration from shelling nuts.
“I get headaches; I get dizziness and vomiting from breathing in the smoke” says Mercy
Tags: actionaid, Exploitation, India, social justice, women's rights
Before Leya Chede, 47, joined ActionAid’s adult literacy Reflect program, she would have been too shy to even meet a stranger coming to her house. Now she is an elected local councillor, representing women’s issues in the local government in the Palisa district in Kampala, Uganda.
Leya Chede photographed at her turkey rearing house with some goats.
Tags: actionaid, Education, Uganda, women's rights
The most amazing stories of strength, courage and perseverance amongst the most challenging and difficult of circumstances in developing countries usually come from women. This story from ActionAid in Ethiopia really struck a chord with me so I thought I’d share it.
In the village of Nadugne Agam there was no water locally and the women had to carry it from the river, bent double, in back-breaking, 25-litre heavy-duty containers strapped to their shoulders.
Tags: actionaid, water, women's rights
