Latin American Waste Pickers Network (LAWPN / Red LACRE)
São Paulo, Brazil
Website: redrecicladores.net/es/Primary information
- Year formed
- 2008
- Language
- Portuguese, Spanish
- Number of groups
- 20
- Type of members
- Members are waste picker organizations
- Occupation of members
- Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Network
- Organizational Reach
- International
- Workplace of members
- Collection from companies, Door to door, Dumpsite, Landfill, Recycling center, Sorting center, Street
- Organization Structure
- Cooperatives, Associations and National movements as partners of the LAWPN. Not decision making, just Secretariat and articulation. The new Secretariats are back in Chile (communication) Colombia (operations) and Brazil (international agenda)
- Objectives
- Recognition of waste pickers
- Partnering organizations
- Avina Foundation, WIEGO, GAIA, Ciudad Saludable,
- Funding
- Donor
- Women composition
Social networking sites
Benefits
Services
Complementary Information
- Information source
- WORD 1/10/2009, LuciaFernandez, 12/08/2014
Comments / Narrative
National movements/networks from Brazil, Chile, Argentina, Colombia, Ecuador, Bolivia, Peru, Nicaragua, and Association members from Paraguay, Puerto Rico, Argentina, Uruguay, Panama, Costa Rica, Dominican Republic, Honduras and Venezuela.
Original name: Red Latinoamericana y del Caribe de Recicladores (Red LACRE)