About us
The Female Worker’s House – Casa da Mulher Trabalhadora (CAMTRA) is a nonprofit feminist institution that was founded in 1997, having as a mission:

To get together with other women in order collaborate for their autonomy and awake them to the importance of their participation in building a fairer and more equal society.

Values
The CAMTRA’s work has been directed to poor women who are workers in several areas;

The institution adopts a feminist perspective believing in women’s potential for development and change. This organization values small changes in women’s everyday lives.

By the name Casa da Mulher Trabalhadora – The Female Worker’s House we want to call attention for the invisibility of women's work; reasserting that all women are workers.

Policies and goals
- Base CAMTRA’s principles and practices on popular education valuing the women’s knowledge, role and education;

- Get together with women: in their work place, in neighborhoods, slums and in schools;

- Give especial attention to places that gather great of the female audience, such as workplaces, syndicates, women’s associations in slums and poor suburbs, public schools and youth groups;

- Enforce women’s rights at work, for retirement, within the family and against domestic violence. Furthermore the organization aims to monitor the forms and mechanisms of assistance given to women by the public sector;

- Serve as school to form social feminist militants in order to achieve concrete actions and to give the opportunity of learning, reflecting and debating their ideas within Camtra or anywhere else;

- Create and support groups that guarantee female’s participation, even those that do not have a militant history;

- Create activities in high-schools dealing with sexual health and social rights;

- Contribute to the feminist education of leaders and of young women hopping for a renovation within feminist movements;

- Motivate young female participation in student’s political groups and associations’ feminist, community and cultural based;

- Stimulate activities and projects developed by youngsters and also aimed to them. Our experience has showed that this type of dialogue is more effective for themes related to the youth. Furthermore this dialogue between youngsters allows them to exercise their social role and prove young female’s capacity of achievement;

- Be an autonomous and self-relying institution involving other sectors of society in order to achieve CAMTRA’s goals. The organization incorporates individual contributions by selling CAMTRA’s material such as: nail files, t-shirts, bags and others. The institution receives fix and important support from syndicates and churches, especially office material donation, space to organize activities offers and financial contributions whenever we organize a public manifestation.