INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF
WASTE PICKERS
WASTE PICKERS
The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
Supported by
Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO)
Phnom Phen, Cambodia
Website: csaro.org/Primary information
- Registered in
- 1997
- Formally registered
- Yes
- Number of members
- 120
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Type of Organization
- Non governmental organization
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Organization Structure
- NGO with groups of waste pickers and/or Cooperatives
- Objectives
- Improving the living and working conditions of the thousands of adult and child waste pickers who make their living by sorting through rubbish on the street and from piles of garbage.
- Women composition
- Mainly women members
Social networking sites
Benefits
Services
- Activities
- Waste management
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 11/09/2011, Fernandez Lucia 12/11/2014
Comments / Narrative
This is an NGO working with waste pickers mainly through composting and organics management. It operates in Phnom Phen.