Her Safety Matters

Every Woman Should Feel Safe at Work

One mission: to turn silence into collective courage.

In an ongoing initiative ActionAid Association is empowering informal women workers across India—gig workers, home-based entrepreneurs, street vendors, construction workers, and agricultural workers. Young Indian women are entering a changing workforce with unprecedented opportunities for independence and progress. But they're also facing unsafe working conditions, lower wages, limited support, and uncertainty about where to seek help when grievances arise or harassment occurs.

Over 95% of India’s women workers are in the informal sector, often facing low and unequal wages, insecure work, sexual harassment, and inadequate facilities such as safe, separate toilets. Many also lack information and access to legal protection and grievance redressal mechanisms.

What your support for "Her Safety Matters” means

Her Safety Matters, an initiative of ActionAid Association, works directly with women workers, communities, employers, and government institutions to create safer workplaces. We:

  • Distribute easy-to-read booklets in multiple languages to informal women workers, covering the POSH Act, fair wages and timely payments, safety during night shifts and at workplaces, working with contractors and management, social security, maternity and motherhood entitlements, and safe borrowing from finance companies.
  • Train community leaders to champion women's safety and defend rights in their localities
  • Provide access to legal protection to women facing harassment
  • Organize interface meetings with advocates and government officials to strengthen implementation of provisions
  • Build livelihood skills and entrepreneurship opportunities for sustainable income
  • Empower women and girls to resist discrimination and unequal power structures

Through women worker schools, awareness rallies, public meetings, and solidarity events, we bring together women workers, employers, government officials, youth groups, labour representatives, and civil society organizations to collectively promote dignity, respect, and equality at work.

Your Support Transforms Lives

When you extend support to Her Safety Matters, you enable women to:

  • Resist and act against violence, harassment, and discrimination
  • Understand their entitlements and access legal and social-welfare support
  • Access healthcare, nutrition, and menstrual-health information
  • Gain livelihood skills and build sustainable income sources
  • Become community leaders who support and inspire others

Our Bold Goals

We're committed to:

  • Educate 1 million informal women workers about their workplace rights
  • Train 10,000 community and women leaders to defend their rights and advance in their localities
  • Provide women who face harassment with pathways to legal protection.

This Is More Than Giving—It's Investing

Your contribution is an expression of solidarity and an investment in advancing courage, potential, resolve and leadership of women and girls.

Join us in building safer, respectful workplaces for women.

Donation

Educate women worker’s group on social-welfare schemes, workplace safety, POSH and Wage Codes

Train a woman leader (workshops, learning materials, mentoring and exposure visits)

Organize wider community programmes promoting safety, dignity and equal opportunity

Provide legal guidance and assistance to a woman experiencing violence or harassment

Educational materials and booklets on POSH, Workplace safety, Wages , Migration, Social Welfare Schemes, Skill and Livelihood and Producer Organisation Schemes etc

Train a group of adolescents in life skills and safety

Any other amount

Minimum amount is Rs.500/-
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Her Safety Matters

Every Woman Should Feel Safe at Work

One mission: to turn silence into collective courage.

In an ongoing initiative ActionAid Association is empowering informal women workers across India—gig workers, home-based entrepreneurs, street vendors, construction workers, and agricultural workers. Young Indian women are entering a changing workforce with unprecedented opportunities for independence and progress. But they're also facing unsafe working conditions, lower wages, limited support, and uncertainty about where to seek help when grievances arise or harassment occurs.

Over 95% of India’s women workers are in the informal sector, often facing low and unequal wages, insecure work, sexual harassment, and inadequate facilities such as safe, separate toilets. Many also lack information and access to legal protection and grievance redressal mechanisms.

What your support for "Her Safety Matters” means

Her Safety Matters, an initiative of ActionAid Association, works directly with women workers, communities, employers, and government institutions to create safer workplaces. We:

  • Distribute easy-to-read booklets in multiple languages to informal women workers, covering the POSH Act, fair wages and timely payments, safety during night shifts and at workplaces, working with contractors and management, social security, maternity and motherhood entitlements, and safe borrowing from finance companies.
  • Train community leaders to champion women's safety and defend rights in their localities
  • Provide access to legal protection to women facing harassment
  • Organize interface meetings with advocates and government officials to strengthen implementation of provisions
  • Build livelihood skills and entrepreneurship opportunities for sustainable income
  • Empower women and girls to resist discrimination and unequal power structures

Through women worker schools, awareness rallies, public meetings, and solidarity events, we bring together women workers, employers, government officials, youth groups, labour representatives, and civil society organizations to collectively promote dignity, respect, and equality at work.

Your Support Transforms Lives

When you extend support to Her Safety Matters, you enable women to:

  • Resist and act against violence, harassment, and discrimination
  • Understand their entitlements and access legal and social-welfare support
  • Access healthcare, nutrition, and menstrual-health information
  • Gain livelihood skills and build sustainable income sources
  • Become community leaders who support and inspire others

Our Bold Goals

We're committed to:

  • Educate 1 million informal women workers about their workplace rights
  • Train 10,000 community and women leaders to defend their rights and advance in their localities
  • Provide women who face harassment with pathways to legal protection.

This Is More Than Giving—It's Investing

Your contribution is an expression of solidarity and an investment in advancing courage, potential, resolve and leadership of women and girls.

Join us in building safer, respectful workplaces for women.

Our Reach

Our Reach

WE WORK IN 317 DISTRICTS, INCLUDING 134 MOST BACKWARD DISTRICTS OF INDIA.

ActionAid India has been working with poor and marginalised people in India since 1972. We work in 25 states and one Union Territory reaching out to over 8 million people every year, those of whom belong to the most marginalised and excluded groups.

  • A full affiliate of ActionAid International.
  • In 2006, we registered in India as "ActionAid Association".
  • Work in 25 States and 1 Union Territory in India.
  • Governed by an independent General Assembly and a Governing Board.

ActionAid Association is registered in India under the Societies Registration Act of 1860 with its registered office at New Delhi. Registration number S-56828 on the 05th of October 2006.

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