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Job Training

We provide job training and specialization courses to domestic workers looking to improve their skills and be more efficient in their work.

La Casa de Panchita Ingles

Open house for domestic workers, a meeting place, a place where one feels they belong and can enjoy their days off and be part of our community.

Volunteer Program

We receive volunteers independently, as well as from European, American, and Peruvian universities and institutions, who choose AGTR for their volunteer work.

About Us

Asociación Grupo de Trabajo Redes (AGTR) is a nongovernmental organisation (NGO) founded on August 17th, 1989. It is registered in the Public Records of Lima (Peru) as a Legal Entity, with number 10555.

Our purpose is: Urge that child domestic workers be withdrawn from the labour market by their families. Develop domestic workers’ personal and labour skills, to enable them to negotiate better terms of employment in compliance with their rights. Protect domestic workers from abuse and exploitation, by carrying out political and social advocacy, in order to achieve the full recognition of their rights.

Our vision is: A country where child domestic labor has been eradicated and adult domestic workers’ full citizenship and rights are recognised.

Our mission is: Endorse the access to domestic service exclusively of those with legal age to perform it, in compliance with their rights and high efficiency standards.

Testimonials

I have six siblings. My mother died when I was six years old. I live with my father and my four brothers. My father only works on Sundays. He is vigilant and on other days, he is at home or is doing other work. I help my aunt cook, clean, and do other tasks in the morning. She gives me tips of 2 soles or 5 soles, but not every day.

Before, I was just taking care of their baby. Now, my neighbor tells me to wash his toilets, and that I can clean the house.

I felt good because I was able to talk about my difficult experience at the house where I stayed for 9 years. During the first seven years I received no salary and no rights that should be granted to domestic workers. I have learned to more clearly understand the value of domestic work.

Before the training at La Casa de Panchita, I couldn’t look people in the eyes. I always looked at the floor when I spoke to someone. Now I’m less shy. Training has helped me with my self-esteem. It has made me feel better about myself.

Through the testimonies of my classmates, I have learned that all work is valuable, and that I must value my experience as a domestic worker and make use of it. I say this because I am a licensed nurse and have worked little time at home. I have also felt motivated today to return to work and start again to meet myself and move forward despite the problems that I am going through.

“This space and my friends have given me the confidence to be able to express my ideas and share my experiences gained from previous jobs.” Emelda has been studying industrial engineering, but has had to leave because she doesn’t have the money to pay for the private university.

Now I value myself more and have realized that I know more things about working in the home than I thought before, and that helps keep me prepared. It felt very good to me. Thank you for allowing me to be in this workshop.

It has been very uplifting and gratifying to learn how to make a profile as a homeworker. I have learned how to value my experiences in this work, how to organize, plan, and adapt to the customs of new employers. It helped me a lot to hear the experiences of domestic workers in Peru since in my country it is different in several ways.

I felt very good. It is the first time I hear that our work is very good, that we each have our stories as domestic workers; some are very ugly, but we’re strong enough to move on.

I felt the explanations I received today will help me to be a professional domestic worker. I learned that domestic workers can be professionals. The explanations were very good, and specific to domestic work.

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