Association Bokk Diom des Récupérateurs et recycleurs de Mbeubeuss

Dakar, Senegal

Información básica

Año de formación

1995

Registrada en

1998

Registrada oficialmente

On

Idioma

Francés, Mandingue, Peulh, Serer, Toucouleur, Wólof

Número de miembros

1,200

Tipos de miembros

Miembros son recicladores

Occupación de los miembros

Recicladores

Tipo de organización

Asociación

Alcance

Local

Estructura de la organización

General Assembly, Steering Committe, Executive Bureau, Health Committe, Management Committe, Educational Permanence. Presidents are elected every five years, and there are six committee members.

Objetivos

Recognition of waste pickers, fight discrimination and poverty, promote the rights of waste pickers, job creation, development of educational activities for children and adolescents, awareness raising, strengthen unity and cohesion among waste pickers, social and economic empowerment of waste pickers, improve quality of life, rights, dignity and welfare of workers,

Organizaciones asociadas

ENDA Graf Sahel Senegal, WIEGO UK, GAIA Europe, STREETNET South Africa, IPEC/ILO, Autre Terre, Life/PNUD

Afiliaciones

Gobierno

Financiación

Financiado por donantes, Fondos de ONGs

Internal elections

Every 5 years

Presencia de mujeres

Redes sociales en Internet

Prestaciones

Servicios

¿Cómo es la relación con el municipio?

Excelente y / o amigable

Types of materials

Artículos del hogar, Metal, Papel y cartón, Plásticos, Residuos biodegradables, Ropa, Vidrio

Actividades

Nuevos artículos hechos de materiales recogidos, Reciclaje, Venta de materiales

Información complementaria

Fuente de información

WORD 26/06/2013, Africa 2012, Africa 2013, Africa 2011

Narrativa / Comentarios

Created in 1968 and currently covering an expanse of more or less one hundred and seventy-five hectares, Mbeubeuss is the only landfill serving the entire city of Dakar. Just north of the city in the Pikine Departement of Malika-Mer, the government gives contracts to trucking companies (Viole is contracted for 20%) to haul 460,000 tons of waste per year to the site. For five or six years the government has been talking about shutting down Mbeumeuss and opening a new site, including a segregation center. The site is planned for a location fifteen kilometers away from the existing dumpsite. The government has proposed that three hundred and fifty waste pickers from the existing estimated 7,040 people living in Mbeumeuss will get jobs at the new recycling center. It has also been proposed that waste pickers will have to pay money to initially become workers in the new center. The proposal is for sorting recyclables at the household level, and then hauling the recyclables to the sorting center. The government will provide member waste pickers a salary for working at the new center.