ABOUT "GLASEN TEXTILEC"

   Glasen Tekstilec is a non-profit, non-governmental, and non-partisan organization established in 2017. Glasen Tekstilec has been working on affirming and recognizing the problems of workers and the violation of human and workers’ rights, as well as on raising the awareness of workers through education, debates, conferences, seminars, and other activities, as education, advocacy and lobbying, research, participation in the preparation of laws and other normative acts and regulations from the areas of interest of the association and the workers from the private sector, with emphasis on the textile, leather, and shoe industry. Through the programs and projects implemented by Glasen Tekstilec, it is directly committed to the promotion of human rights, workers’ rights, access to justice for the marginalized, protection against gender-based discrimination, promotion of gender equality, and equal pay for the same work done. The focus of the association is women’s rights, given that 90% of employees in the textile industry are women.

Glasen Tekstilec has implemented over 10 independent projects and several partner projects. Through the project activities, it strives for the direct promotion of the rights of women textile workers, which by the way are human rights, guaranteed by the Constitution.

Glasen Tekstilec employs 5 people and two people who are constantly engaged through a contract.

Glasen Textilec has implemented over 10 independent projects and several partner projects. Through the project activities, it strives for direct promotion of the rights of women textile workers, which by the way are human rights, guaranteed by the Constitution.

Founder of Glasen Textilec are: Kristina Ampeva, Blagojche Dishoski, Ivana Grozdanova and Zlata Petrova.

Glasen Textilec employs 5 people and two people who are constantly engaged through a service contract.

VISION

Citizens workers with high awareness, educated and informed, enjoy their rights.

MISSION

Leading organization for exercising the rights of workers in RNM.

GOALS AND OBJECTIVES

  1. Professionalism and transparency in the work of the association;
  2. Representing the interests in the state from the private sector, with emphasis on those of the textile, leather and shoe industries;
  3. Affirmation and popularization of workers’ problems and the violation of their rights;
  4. Raising the awareness of workers through education, debates, conferences, seminars and other activities that are needed;
  5. Participation in the preparation of laws and other normative acts and regulations in the areas of interest of the association and the workers in the textile, leather and shoe industry;
  6. Construction of its own structure for preparation of projects for development and promotion of the association;
  7. Stimulating, lobbying, managing, creating, and developing collaboration with the media, business sector, other non-governmental organizations, foundations, associations and the realization of international cooperation;
  8. Support, creation, and development of cooperation with central and local government bodies, international institutions and organizations, foreign embassies and governments;
  9. Stimulating, supporting, implementing, and advocating for workers, through the positive examples in European countries. Participation in solving, overcoming, and satisfying the problems and needs of the workers in the textile, leather, and shoe industry;
  10. Performing other activities and forms of work that contribute to the promotion of workers’ rights, popularization of problems, and raising the awareness of workers;
  11. Formation and development of networks and groups with organizations in order to strengthen the capacities for improvement of workers’ rights;
  12. Popularization and affirmation of the status and the violation of the rights of the marginalized and vulnerable population working in the textile, leather, and shoe industry (Roma, LGBT, addicts, sex workers, etc.);
  13. Strengthening and developing volunteerism and volunteer management and active involvement of young people both inside and outside the organization
  14. Social inclusion and raising the awareness of working citizens through art and culture.

MEET OUR TEAM

  • Kristina Ampeva, President and Project Coordinator

Contact: kristinaampeva88@yahoo.com / 00389 75 316 107

  • Blagojche Dishoski, Financial Coordinator

Contact: blagojche.dishoski@glasentekstilec.mk / 00389 75 316 108

  • Veselinka Moneva, Administration Coordinator

Contact: veselinka.moneva@glasentekstilec.mk / 00389 75 316 108

  • Kristina Nedkova, Legal Advisor

Contact: kristina.nedkova@glasentekstilec.mk / 00389 75 316 109

 

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