Design a Know-Your-Rights Toolkit for Domestic Workers in Lagos

Domestic workers in Nigeria, most of them young women from rural states, occupy one of the most legally unprotected positions in the country. The Employees Compensation Act and the Labour Act nominally apply to them, but few employers acknowledge this, and fewer workers know it. Abuse, withheld wages, and wrongful dismissal are common, and there is almost no accessible channel for redress. The core problem is not simply that rights exist on paper. It is that those rights are written in legal language, published in documents no domestic worker will ever encounter, and enforced by institutions that are expensive and intimidating to approach. A domestic worker in Ajah or Ikorodu has no realistic way to know what she is owed, let alone how to claim it. Your task is to produce a rights toolkit, aimed at domestic workers aged 18 to 35 in Lagos State. This could take the form of a designed PDF, a WhatsApp-optimised format, a printed card series, or a combination. It should cover: minimum wage entitlements, lawful termination conditions, the right to refuse hazardous work, and at least one low-barrier route to seek help (an NGO, a trade union, a pro bono legal clinic). Good work will be genuinely readable by someone with a secondary school education. It will be rooted in actual Nigerian law and will name real support organisations. It will not lecture or moralize. A strong submission will also include a one-page distribution strategy: where and how you would actually get this into workers' hands.