Egna Legna Besidet

EGNA LEGNA BESIDET




community-based, feminist activists working on migrant domestic workers’ issues and general women’s issues in Lebanon and Ethiopia.

We fight against the injustices of kafala, gender-based violence and the exploitation of adolescent labour.

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OUR GOALS

We seek to support women already working in Lebanon and are raising awareness in Ethiopia to stop women going to Lebanon.
We are run by Ethiopian women and we seek to assist our own community in a multitude of ways. We collaborate with different NGOs and ethnic groups to achieve our purposes.
Fight

To fight for justice for abused domestic workers.

Survival

To provide Ethiopian women with survival skills for living in Lebanon.

Leadership

To promote women in leadership

Educate

To educate young women in Ethiopia of the dangers of traveling to Lebanon in order to dissuade them from coming.

Work Skills

To provide women with work skills that will enable them to be self-supporting on return home so that less leave to work in the Middle East again.

Break Taboos

To break cultural taboos and create a safe space so that women are comfortable to talk about personal issues.

Family

To create a safe space by organizing cultural events, celebrating feast days, and to create a sense of family abroad.

Rights

To educate women about their rights as women and domestic workers.

Solidarity

To build solidarity and share resources among activist community groups.

OUR PROJECTS

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THE TEAM

Ethiopian | Women | domestic workers activists

Engna Legna Banchyi
Banchi Yimer

Founder

Engna Legna Tsigereda
Tsigereda Brihanu

Projects Manager

Engna Legna Messi
Genet Lema

Activities Coordinator

Engna Legna Mekdes
Mekdes Ylma

Director of Finance

OUR MANTRA




Work Hard

Play Hard

Make the Most of the Worst

We Can Do It Together

What Others Say

EgnaLegna

“We do not want other women to suffer through what we have experienced”

Rootslab Logo

Rootslab Lebanon

Gender Inequality NGO

Ethiopian migrant workers craft their way out of the Lebanese ‘Kafala’ System

Steffen Neupert

Steffen Neupert

Journalist

Embodied Storytelling

“Embodying the political as personal and the motion in the local/global feminist movements they are part of.”

Global Fund For Women

Global Fund for Women

Intl Network for Women