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| Naam: | Ali |
| Locatie: | Kampala |
| Over mij / ons: | The Waste Pickers' Alliance Uganda aims to develop Waste Pickers income through upgrading work settings, training in trade, savings and building their capacity to minimise HIV/AIDS and wastes associated health risks. We advocate for garbage collectors rights and work to expose the dangerous conditions under which garbage collectors work with the big companies; lacking protective wear resulting into touching still births, feaces and animal cacasses as the work is done by hand |
| Waarom 1%LID: | we are seeking for assistance for our project 'Fair trade and safe workplace for Waste Pickers sustainable livelihoods' and also looking out for networking with social minded companies that can buy PET plastic waste and paper wastes. we seek to develop into a large cooperative.Long before all the measures to contain greenhouse gas emissions, the waste pickers were there, as silent friends of the earth. Today they are fighting to be recognised as being invisible entrepreneurs earning livelihoods from picking recyclable waste and thereby reducing the demand for natural resources. However they face exploitation by the middlemen who buy the recyclables for onwards sale to factories. If funded, Waste pickers and scavengers will enjoy a good working environment, an upgraded work setting where one can get drinking water and contain health hazards, learn about trade, how to use internet and related business, learn the importance of saving with a bank and how this can help their income grow steadily. The project would see the waste pickers bargaining power strengthened. Changes will occur within the trade chain of selling recyclable items; formation of waste pickers’ cooperatives will lay provision to bypass the middlemen, dismantle the monopolistic markets, and thus increase waste picker earnings for decent livelihoods. The project would lobby for the purchase of materials from the cooperatives and will even take a more active role supporting the formation of waste pickers’ cooperatives countrywide. These cooperatives are estimated by the already successful Latin American Network of Waste pickers to raise waste pickers income by 20%.(the network has won funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation). Enhancing the productive potential of the informal economy and income generating capacity would bring about changes that lead to a gradual integration into the formal economy. The Waste Pickers’ Alliance of Uganda is pushing for waste pickers’ development and efforts to expand and formalise their operations in order to contain the severe poverty being experienced. |
| Welke 1% wil jij bijdragen: | networking with minded people to develop into a very big cooperative of garbage pickers able to sell plastic wastes abroad. tutoring on health and safety, HIV / AIDS and nutrition to the many HIV positive waste pickers |
| Expertises: | Handel /Transport, Sociaal werk, Project Management, Gezondheidszorg /geneeskunde, Administratie / financiën, |
| Beschikbare tijd: | every sunday for 2 hrs in the evening |
| Waar: | Home, in Kampala, I can as well travel throught the country |
| Tags: | International human rights education, stress management education, Nutrition education for HIV/AIDS affected people, small projects management |
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Ali heeft een nieuw fotoalbum toegevoegd aan Fair Trade and Safe Workplace for Waste Pickers Sustainable Livelihoods:
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6 feb.
Ali schreef een weblog voor Fair Trade and Safe Workplace for Waste Pickers Sustainable Livelihoods:
Trying to Build Waste Pickers Website
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