FairWork Foundation | FairWork India
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A helping hand

To Support
A Child

When rights, protection and education reach a child in time, vulnerability can give way to dignity, confidence and a fairer future.

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Labour Rights & Social Protection

Supporting Workers,
Strengthening Futures

Programme FocusResearch · Advocacy · Field Action
Rights and awarenessSecurity and opportunity

Welcome to FairWork Foundation

Together for Fairer Work and Brighter Futures

Lasting change grows when workers, communities, institutions and supporters move together with purpose.

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Build With Us

Partner

Bring institutions and communities together around responsible action.

Women workers taking part in a skills programme in Bihar
Centre Every Voice

Workers

Listen to lived experience and strengthen informed participation.

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Advance Decent Work

Mission

Connect rights, policy and practical field-based intervention.

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Protect Every Future

Vision

Shape a just world of work where dignity and opportunity endure.

Our Core Programmes

Rights That Reach Real Lives

Our work connects evidence, policy and community action so dignity is not only promised, but experienced.

Women participating in a rights and gender awareness workshop Rights

Labour Rights and Decent Work

Strengthening awareness, voice and access to fair, safe and dignified working conditions.

Approach:
Research & advocacy
Grounding:
Field intervention
Health and social protection support delivered in a community setting Protection

Social Protection for Vulnerable Workers

Promoting inclusive systems that help workers and families navigate risk with greater security.

Focus:
Inclusive policy
Purpose:
Greater security
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Education and Opportunity for Children

Supporting pathways that help children learn, grow and move towards safer futures.

Focus:
Quality learning
Purpose:
Future opportunity
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Benefits of Standing Together

Bring More Meaning to Work and Community

Support can help turn evidence into action, awareness into confidence and policy commitments into practical change.

Work With Us
Workers taking part in practical skills training

Uphold Dignity

Help workers understand and exercise their rights.

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Strengthen Safety

Encourage safer workplaces and informed communities.

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Expand Protection

Advance access to inclusive social protection.

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Keep Children Learning

Support education as a path beyond vulnerability.

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Our Story and Purpose

For Every Worker's Dignity. For Every Child's Future.

For more than two decades, FairWork Foundation has carried forward a simple yet urgent belief: every worker deserves rights, safety and social protection, and every child deserves quality education and the chance to build a better future.

Formerly known as the Child Labour Elimination Resource Network, we are a Section 8 not-for-profit organisation working at the intersection of labour rights, social justice and sustainable development.

Decent Work, Protected Lives

We strengthen labour rights, promote inclusive policies and support vulnerable workers and communities through research, advocacy and field-based interventions.

Childhoods Filled With Possibility

We envision a future where every child can access quality education and the opportunities needed to grow with confidence, dignity and hope.

Stand With FairWork

Help Build a Fairer World of Work

Choose a meaningful way to strengthen rights, protection, learning and community-led change.

People contributing to a field research and awareness campaign

Support Field Research

Evidence for action

Help deepen understanding of lived realities.
People sharing child labour awareness materials

Strengthen Worker Awareness

Rights within reach

Help communities access clear, practical information.
A health and protection programme in a community

Advance Social Protection

Security with dignity

Support pathways towards safer, more secure lives.
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Keep Children Learning

Opportunity for the future

Help education remain a path beyond vulnerability.