The Voice of Domestic Workers is an education and support group calling for justice and rights for Britain's sixteen thousand migrant domestic workers.  We provide educational and community activities for domestic workers - including English language lessons, drama and art classes, and employment advice, and provide support for domestic workers who exit from abusive employers.​  Our work seeks to end discrimination and protect migrant domestic workers living in the UK by providing or assisting in the provision of education, training, healthcare and legal advice. 

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Speaking out about our work, sharing our stories and our experiences is vital if we are to address the injustice many of our network are facing,  raising awareness of our work to improve the living and working conditions of migrant domestic workers in the UK and to increase respect for the work that we do with an end goal of tacking the policies that affect our rights.
 

Migrant Domestic Workers are one of the most vulnerable groups of workers. Removing our rights in 2012 has left us unprotected, powerless and in severe exploitative work condition. When our employers stopped us from working without notice and pay during covid19 lockdown we couldn't claim our unpaid wages, we are afraid to go to the hospital when infected by this virus and some are even quarantined.  We were deprived and forced to work long, unpaid hours including working for free on our days off. When parents and children were all at home during the lockdown, we worked up to 24 hours per day. We are essential workers too. Is asking the UK to value our work too much? Domestic work is work, and we should be protected as workers.
 

Migrant Domestic Workers  are the backbone of our society, but we know that your voices and stories often go unheard. This has been magnified during the covid pandemic. We need to be part of the conversations that affect us, and have a seat around the table to influence change.
 

This new training programme aims to equip a new network of 12 Migrant Domestic Workers with the skills and confidence to share their experiences, have their expertise heard more widely and  ultimately drive public awareness and policy change. This is a pilot programme developed in partnership with charity sounddelivery media, who run a spokesperson network with leaders with lived experience.