Sarita Devi is a domestic worker, a social rights activist and community organiser and leader, based in Gurgaon’s Harijan Basti. A migrant who came to Gurgaon nearly two decades ago with her family, Sarita has been closely associated with the Martha Farrell Foundation for the last six years. Through her work, nearly 1000 women domestic workers in the basti have been collectivised to advocate for their rights and voices, including leading and participating in the Postcard Campaign in 2020 to demand safer working conditions for domestic workers everywhere. Sarita has led various focus group discussions and represented women domestic workers of her community at various national and international platforms in the past.

Originally from Tamil Nadu, Helen has been living in Delhi for nearly three decades. Before aligning herself with the National Domestic Workers Movement, Helen was a news translator working with a South Indian news channel, and a tutor for school going children. Over the last three years, Helen, as a part of the Union, has been working on-the-ground as a facilitator and mobiliser with women domestic workers. Helen worked closely with the community to resolve exacerbated challenges that the COVID pandemic brought on, and coordinated relief distribution that reached over one thousand women domestic workers and their families during the second wave in India.

Sister Bibiyana Iakra is a passionate Unionist and trainer, who supports and promotes the growth of self help groups and women’s cooperatives. Originally from Jharkhand, she’s spent most of her life working with tribal women of Chhattisgarh on issues of gender, gender-based violence, women’s empowerment, sustainable livelihood and economic and financial independence. Currently associated with the National Domestic Workers Movement, Sister Bibiyana is engaged in taking affirmative action to promote the rights and entitlements of informal workers in Delhi. Close contact with bonded labourers throughout her childhood encouraged Sister Bibiyana to take up the path of Christianity and dedicate her life to the welfare of the people.