Theme: Profiles/Workers’ Stories

The Art of Recovery: A Johannesburg Reclaimer’s Story

Ernestine Mohloboli, a former artist who now makes a living collecting waste in Johannesburg, has long been a proponent of organizing reclaimers....

Sewing the Seams: Cape Town Homeworkers Pull Together as COVID-19 Halts Earnings

Homeworkers in the garment industry are the most vulnerable and exploited link in the supply chain and Cape Town homeworker Chevonne Jacobs...

Undeterred in the Face of a Crisis: Profile of a Market Trader in Durban, South Africa

A determined advocate in the struggle for traders’ rights, Romilla Chetty was desperate to get her trading stalls at Durban’s Warwick Junction...

View from the Mountain: A South African Waste Picker’s Uphill Battle during COVID-19

When COVID-19 hit, it was South African waste picker Justina Kgoele’s resourcefulness that got her through the worst of the crisis....

WIEGO lamenta la pérdida de Guillermo Pérez

La comunidad que anida para el trabajo de WIEGO en Perú – que incluye miembros del equipo de WIEGO, socios, dirigentes y miembros de...

WIEGO Mourns the Loss of Guillermo Pérez

The community in which WIEGO’s work in Peru is rooted, which includes WIEGO team members, partners, leaders and members of workers’...

Domestic Workers: Organizing the Patience Industry

Camarada Albertina Mundlovo is a domestic worker in Maputo, Mozambique. An Indian Ocean port city, Maputo is Mozambique’s largest economic...

Organizando a Indústria da Paciência: Perfil de uma Trabalhadora Doméstica em Maputo, Moçambique

Martha Chen interview with alma mater Connecticut College

Connecticut College interviews two alumnae: Marty Chen, International Coordinator of WIEGO, and her mother, Barbara “Barry” Beach...

Small World, Big Goals: A Home-Based Garment Worker in Delhi

From her Delhi home, Farida-ben embroiders garments for foreign retailers. Denied an education and other options, she has done this work...