I am grateful to be part of such a meaningful initiative that will not only help support my children financially but also provide psychological support. The valuable knowledge The Centre and Save the Children share will help my family safeguard our children’s future.  (Commenting on the Child Benefit Allowance Initiative in Sri Lanka, winner of the Seal Challenge, 2023)

The Parents Training allowed me to reflect on my parenting style and how I can improve as a parent. Then when I came home, I gave the training to my husband and mother-in-law as they also spend time with my daughter and need to be informed about these important issues like coping with stress, communication and providing a better environment for the child at home.

I felt supported by the factory management. They have tried to understand our difficulties as parent workers. I hope we can have more parenting training like this in the future.

With the parenting knowledge and skills they learned, they can achieve better work-life balance and improve their productivity at work, creating greater values for the company. On the other hand, these training sessions showed workers that the company cares for them. Some workers told me after the training that they felt that the company thought about aspects that even they themselves overlooked and they really appreciate the company’s effort… We’ll consider offering more such trainings to our employees in the future

The migrant parent worker training and Photovoice programme allowed us to support these parents and improve their relationship with their children back home. A secondary motivation has been to help factory management decrease turnover by improving worker satisfaction and loyalty. We’ve seen success in both areas

We needed such projects for the satisfaction of our workers. The parents were very happy, especially when they saw the progress their children made during the summer. I believe that the impact is a long term one and a win-­win to all parties involved

There were several times during the programme implementation that I was moved to tears – like, hearing the voices of our workers about their children during training, and witnessing the delight of children and parents playing together during the family fay. The top management was also positively surprised by how the WeCare programme turned out to be. It is not only beneficial to workers, but also helps boost the internal cohesion of our factory.

As the factory management we are very happy that this programme helps uplift the vibe of our factory, as well as the well-being of parent workers on a deeper level. They feel more assured at work

Thanks to the VF WeCare programme, workers and factory management have a much closer relationship.  When I go to the production floor, parent workers who participated in the WeCare programme would warmly greet me and voluntarily bring up the topic on child education. They also express gratitude to us for the opportunity to learn parenting skills, because they had no clue about efficient parent-child communication before

The Centre has provided us with a detailed guidance on age verification procedures and practical tools which we can use in day-to-day HR management work. I also learnt good practices from the other training participants covering age verification.