Restore Hope is a community based organization of women workers in Limuru-Kiambu county-Kenya processing factories who are supporting workers on tea and rubber plantations and in the garment and domestic work sectors to take up leadership in trade unions. RHC is building the capacities of women workers to address women’s labour rights and advocate for the inclusion of issues such as minimum wage and health and safety in government and company policy regulations and in company management.
RHC- empowers women tea and garment workers from Kenya and provide training on how they can use the CEDAW treaty to submit cases of violations of women workers’ and human rights, file complaints about exploitation in their work environments with the CEDAW committee. RHC works to address gender-based violence in agricultural value chains with a goal to accelerate the scale of the UN Women ‘Global Women’s Safety Framework in Rural Spaces’ and ensure that ‘all women and girls are socially, economically, and politically empowered in rural spaces that are free from sexual harassment and other forms of violence’. RHC works collaborates with a wide range of industry stakeholders in the Tea and Garment industry, emphasizing that when businesses demonstrate a firm commitment to ending gender based violence, the textile sector will thrive as a result.
To build a society in which the rights and the dignity of women workers are recognized and safeguarded.
To organize and empower women workers to create an environment, which will help them, win and safeguard their rights, acquire the respect of society and facilitate their participation in development processes.
Daraja House, next to Chief’s camp
P.O.Box 6-00217 Limuru, Kenya
Email: info@restorehopeorg.org