Tuendelee Mbele EPZ Workers Welfare
is a registered self-help organization founded in 2004 by workers in Kenya 's Export Processing Zones (EPZ). Current and former workers in the Ruaraka Industrial Area, just north of Nairobi , saw the need for an organization to support workers to uplift the quality of their lives. It is a membership organization of garment workers who obtain their incomes through seasonal or permanent work in the sweatshop conditions within the factories in the EPZs.
Tuendelee Mbele's mission is to create a society with dignity and equality; one in which workers are free from poverty, gender discrimination and HIV/AIDS. Tuendelee Mbele proposes four areas of intervention: HIV/AIDS education, labour and human rights education, support to the HIV/AIDS affected and infected, and income-generating activities.
Together with the Kenyan Human Rights Commission, Tuendelee Mbele has trained a group of peer educators in human rights and labour rights. These educators are active in the factories and the community, and are supported in an ongoing way by the organization.
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