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Diary of Summer Camp with Children of Wastepickers

Priyanka Sacheti | Region Asia | Jul 05, 2017

I got to learn about Hasiru Dala when I started volunteering with Buguri a couple of months after moving to Bangalore in January this year. Having volunteered with a community li...

Child labor and education

Health and Dignity to Waste pickers & Recylers! Join the Red Dot Campaign!

SWaCH Members | Region Asia | Feb 10, 2017

Today, Pune’s SWaCH wastepicker cooperative, the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtkari Panchayat (KKPKP) waste-picker trade union and Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) kicked off a massive, ...

Demands

Swachh Mission: GVMC to Deploy Rag Pickers

Special Correspondent (The Hindu) | Region Asia | Feb 02, 2017

Vishakhapatnam is the second city in Andhra Pradesh to issue occupational identity cards of wastepickers. Issuance of occupational identity cards is a long demand of Alliance of In...

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2016 A Benchmark Year for Wastepickers in India

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Dec 30, 2016

2016 has been quite a remarkable year and will be remembered as a benchmark period in the struggle of wastepickers for recognition. This year for the first time, updated solid and ...

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Vijaywada Municipal Corporation Issues Occupational Identity Cards to Wastepickers

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Dec 27, 2016

Indore, Mysuru, Panvel and Tumakuru are other four cities which have issued ID cards to wastepickers this year. Vijaywada Municipal Corporation issued occupational identity cards (...

Laws and Legislation Social security

Indore Municipal Corporation Issues Occupational Identity Cards to Wastepickers

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Dec 26, 2016

Indore Municipal Corporation issued occupational identity cards to 25o wastepickers associated with Jan Vikas Society. The cards were distributed by Ms. Malini Gaur, Mayor of Indor...

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Hasiru Dala turns 3!

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Dec 01, 2016

Dear friends, colleagues & supporters It is our immense pleasure to inform you that Hasiru Dala, the foundations of which were laid together by wastepickers and informal...

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Safai Karmachari Corporation Includes Waste Pickers as Target Group

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Nov 30, 2016

National Safai Karmachari Finance & Development Corporation (NSKFDC) has decided to include wastepickers as target group for providing financing and self-development skills. Th...

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Wastepickers Cooperative- SwaCH & Pune Municipal Corporation Awarded by PM Modi

Kabir Arora | Region Asia | Oct 05, 2016

“It is very good news for us and waste pickers across the country that our work is being recognized. However, these awards need to translate themselves in actual gains for wast...

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Voices from the Ground in Turkey

Sonia Maria Dias | Region Europe | Sep 16, 2016

This article is part of the series “Scenes from the Heart of Recycling”. “We have been collecting waste in the streets since our childhood. We are an indispensable part o...

Trainings

Waste pickers in India are recognized in new government rules

SEWA | Region Asia | Sep 01, 2016

There is good news for waste pickers. The lakhs of nondescript women with a waste-bag hung over their shoulders, collecting garbage from roads and dumpsites is a common sight acros...

Laws and Legislation

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