We committed to embedding the Women’s Empowerment Principles into our business and supply chains in FY20, so creating a pillar of learning focussed on gender and inclusion will enable us to build on our commitments and ensure that the principles are reflected throughout all our operations as well as our supply chain.
In India, we have continued to build on the progress made with our mill project in Tamil Nadu where we have reached over 21,000 workers and their families through our five established resource centres. These centres are used to conduct training with potential workers and their families to improve their knowledge around labour rights. In addition to the employment focussed support, we also have a focus on health and wellbeing offering health check-ups for 3996 workers, as well as providing subsidised sanitary products and working to improve general health awareness and confidence.
In the previous financial year, we commenced our participation in the inaugural Target Gender Equality programme with the United Nations Global Compact. The programme ended in March 2021 having helped us shape our thinking on how we achieve gender equality at all levels of our business. The strides we made internally resulted in two colleagues from the business being asked to speaking at Target Gender Equality Live, a United Nations event that included participants from across the globe to share best practices and talk about the challenges they faced. We will continue to build on the progress we made throughout this programme and ensure we are an active participant of the wider UN Global Compact network.
Going forward we will expand our work on gender and inclusion to other regions and are already speaking with potential partners to support disabled workers into employment in Bangladesh and China.
Going forward we will expand our work on gender and inclusion to other regions and are already speaking with potential partners to support disabled workers into employment in Bangladesh and China.
