20/10/2026
This International Home-Based Workers Day, we honour the workers who keep producing through floods, storms and record heat. They did the least to cause the climate crisis, yet they pay the highest price. When your home is your workplace, a flood takes your stock, your tools and your income at once. But home-based workers are not waiting to be rescued.
🇰🇪 In Kitui, Kenya, drought means no water for families, gardens or work. So home-based workers formed groups and dug shared deep wells, using solar panels to pump water up from underground, securing water for their families, gardens and work. In Machakos, worker groups are now pressing their county government to expand water infrastructure.
These solutions work, but workers should not have to pay for them alone. Governments must include home-based workers in social protection and climate policy, and ratify ILO Convention 177.
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