Album of songs by Sri Lanka’s female garment workers to promote labour values
Monday, November 27, 2014, 13:50 GMT, ColomboPage News Desk, Sri Lanka.
Colombo Page, Sri Lanka
Nov 27, Colombo: Christian World Service of New Zealand has funded a Sri Lanka NGO working with the country’s garment workers, for a project of releasing a song album with the hope of uplifting the image of working women in Sri Lanka.
Garment manufacturing is Sri Lanka’s biggest export industry and over 80% of the garment workers are young girls.
“These girls are treated very badly by our society. They are called all kinds of derogatory names and harassed on the roads and preyed upon. But they are the people earning money for this country. We want to tell people not to treat them badly,†said Padmini Weerasuriya, the Coordinator of the Women’s Centre that produced the album.
The CD is named as ‘City of Tailors’ and comprises 12 songs dedicated to the women garment workers. Five of the songs have been composed and sung by female garment workers.
