Haitian Workers’ Project (HWP) is a community-based initiative by and for Haitian immigrants, which educates and organizes Haitian immigrants of the working class to understand their rights and responsibilities as workers and immigrants.

Through our Adult Literacy initiative over 25 years, Haitian Workers Project, incorporated information into our regular curriculum and workshops to get updated information about current campaigns to the participants.

Haitian domestic workers participated in the campaign leading to the passing of the NYS Domestic Workers Bill of Rights. Our members worked closely with Domestic Workers United since 2000 to raise the struggle of care workers and expand worker protection rights that historically excluded domestic workers and farm workers, to include all workers.

HWHR are one of the founding organizations of the National Domestic Workers Alliance National.

The HWP trainings covered several campaigns:

• END APARTHEID IN THE D.R. A campaign against the denationalization of Dominicans of Haitian descent.

www.endapartheidinthedr.wordpress.com

• REUNITE HAITIAN-AMERICAN FAMILIES  A campaign aimed towards having an executive order passed for Haitian Family Reunification Parole.

     

Past campaigns have focused on domestic workers rights, worker negotiation skills, domestic violence (VAWA), trafficking/U Visas, campaign development strategies, and how to participate in advocacy efforts where those affected by immigration policies can have an influence on immigration policy.