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
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Gulf Youth Group
Kisumu, Kenya
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2005
- Number of members
- 22
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste collectors
- Type of Organization
- Self-help group
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door
- Organization Structure
- The group is divided into three groups of AIDS awareness, Solid Waste Collection and urban agriculture and also has a management committee whose leaders are elected every two years through secret voting. The management committee consists of 11 men and 10 women. The members do pay a membership fee to become a member. New members are recruited after people register by volunteering and after paying a fee of 50 shillings. Records kept include training records, budgetary records, goods records, health talk records and waste transport records.
- Objectives
- Contribute to cleaning the environment, job creation, eduation and training, keep local area clean, promote urban agriculture, achieve efficient sustainable solid waste management in the city
- Education and training
- Risks & health
- Partnering organizations
- KIWAMA for skills training, Tuungane Youth Project for AIDS awareness, CARE Kenya for Urban Agriculture training
- Affiliations
- Civil society organization, Ngo
- Funding
- Self funded
- Internal elections
- Every 2 years
- Women composition
- 45,5%
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income
- Safety & Technology
- Yes
Services
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Excellent and/or friendly
- Types of materials
- Biodegradable waste, Plastics
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Composting, Selling materials
- Treatmet of organic materials
- Composting
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009
Comments / Narrative
The group has engaged the municipality by seeking advice on how to manage waste in their areas and they have given the authority a letter of appreciation. It has never participated in any protests but tries to engage buyers whom they sell or intend to sell to by inviting them to come and see the crops grown with compost manure from organic waste.