IFWEA spoke to Refilwe Lekwape from the Izwi Domestic Workers Alliance about the Digital Skills course and why it is important to upskill.

Muhammad Tajammal Aziz from the Labour Education Foundation (LEF) talks about his experience doing the IFWEA Digital Skills course and how he can use this in his organisation.

Juan Carlos from PLADES has run a Training for Trainers course to promote alliances for a Just Energy Transition, aimed at participants from Latin America.  

The 24th international General Conference of IFWEA will take place in Cape Town, South Africa in December 2023.

Tracy Adhiambo is a secretary for the Amalgamated Union of Kenya Metal Workers. Last year she was part of a youth group that received strategic ICT training from IFWEA through a collaboration with IndustriALL.

Nina Langit-Garcia is based in the Philippines, and she joins the IFWEA Secretariat as an Educator/Online Education Assistant. We spoke to Nina about her involvement in workers’ education.

Garikanai Shoko is the Regional Education Officer for BWI Africa and the Middle East. He speaks about working with IFWEA, and his aims for worker education.

Myrtle Witbooi, a pioneering leader of the domestic worker movement died on January 16 2023 in Cape Town at age 75. She was an iconic figure in the South African and international labour movement.

Ela Ramesh Bhatt, founder of Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and a pioneer in advocating for women workers’ rights, passed away on 2 November 2022, aged 89.

For the first time since 2019, the flagship IFWEA Youth Globalisation Awareness Programme (YGAP) was held in person, at Community House in Cape Town, South Africa.

IFWEA Secretariat Educators Renaldi Prinsloo and Melanie Julie, attended and presented at the annual Moodle Moot Global conference this year in Barcelona, Spain. They reflect on the experience.