Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK)

Bangladesh Nari Sramik Kendra (BNSK) was established in 2010; It got registration with the Department of Women Affairs in 2012 (Registration No. JESBIK/ DHAK/383/12).  BNSK is a platform of Workers, Activists, Think-Tanks & Policy makers, all working together to achieve a society where all women workers are provided with their Rights, Dignity and Recognized for their contribution. We have been Listening to, Educating, Advocating, Developing, and Supporting women workers since 2010.

ACTION RESEARCH: Women worker faces barriers, struggles, and problems at every stage of their personal and professional life. So in order to find the root causes and their solutions, we did multiple researches. These provided us with so many insights of where our workers were facing troubles and how to solve them.

POLICY ADVOCACY: We believe in the fact that true changes comes from both social advocacy along with policy advocacy. And after finding gaps, barriers and solutions to them through our extensive researches, we held over 45 policy advocacy meetings with all the stakeholders ranging from the workers themselves to the Govt. ministers & MPs to the field to International Human rights organisations.

GRASSROOT ADVOCACY: Reaching women workers and helping them have better and safer opportunities has always been one of our main goals. Hence so far we have provided over 2000 awareness campaigns, courtyard sessions, and leadership training to women workers in 15 districts of Bangladesh.

TRAINING: There are certain gaps in the service deliveries and support deliveries for women workers. In order to bridge those gaps, improvement in skills and capacity of the workers and the people providing their service to the workers is really important. So with that principle we from BNSK have provided over 10k training sessions over 64 districts of Bangladesh with over 45-thousand people building their capacity and skill from them.

CRISIS SUPPORT: During times of emergency and crisis, women fall into the most vulnerable and susceptible to loss, women workers even more so. So in order to be beside them and help them get over the crisis period, BNSK provides support in many forms, from Fooding & Shelter to Financial Support. During the COVID-19 crisis alone when almost 80% of women domestic workers were laid off in Bangladesh and Abroad, BNSK provided over 14000 hot meals support, 3670 Food material support ( oil, rice, etc.) and Financial Support to over 70 women in serious crisis situations.

REINTEGRATION PROGRAMME: Provided Reintegration support to 390+ returnee women migrant workers back into the domestic economy with Garments-Tailoring Management Training, Food Cart/Truck Production Training and Financial Management Training

Working Area: Dhaka, Manikganj, Joshore, Khulna, Brahminbaria, and Sylhet

Organisation’s Website : http://bnsk.org/