Women’s Organisation FOR Rural Development (WORD)
Women’s Organisation for Rural Development (WORD) aims to promote the socio-economic development of marginalised communities, with a particular focus on the empowerment of women. WORD works with the Freedom Fund to reduce bonded labour in parts of the textiles industry, especially affecting girls and young women in the spinning mills in Vennandur Block in Namakkal district of Tamil Nadu.
Photo credit: Ryan Lobo/C&A Foundation
PROJECT & INITIATIVES
Southern India