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Jane Tate

International Coordinator

Jane Tate started work with homeworkers in West Yorkshire in the eighties, and subsequently developed work in Europe and internationally. In the mid-nineties, she coordinated the campaign for the International Labour Organisation to adopt the Convention and Recommendation on Home Work. She has worked as international coordinator for Homeworkers Worldwide since 2000.

Karoline Kemp

Administrator

Karoline started work for HWW in the recent mapping programme and continued to work as administrator during the BRC project. She has visited Adithi at their site in Jharkhand, at the Jarmundi campus and completed a project on the Self Help Groups. Karoline has also helped to host visits by those from other countries and attended the international meeting held in Macedonia in March 2006.

Ruth Bergan

Campaigns and Networking Officer

Ruth joined HWW in April 07 and will be building on HWW’s work collaborating with partners and campaigning to improve conditions for homeworkers. Ruth has experience of living and working in India, with women’s credit unions and non-formal education centres. During her MA in International Development Studies, she focussed on gender equality issues in South Asia. In the UK, she has worked for a number of NGOs on development education, refugee and livelihoods issues.