The organizations listed in this WAW database were the result of the effort to merge in one place multiple waste picker related organizations data bases in 2014. Visit the current list of affiliates to the International Alliance of Waste Pickers.
Mama Power Development Women Group
Kisumu, Kenya
Primary information
- Year formed
- 1995
- Registered in
- 1999
- Formally registered
- Yes
- Number of members
- 20
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Type of Organization
- Community based organization
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- There is a management committee whose leaders are elected once every two years. The management committee has a total of 12 women.There is a membership fee of Ksh 100. They keep production records, sales records, register records, fines records & petty cash.
- Objectives
- Keep local area clean, job creation, improve livelihoods, contribute to cleaning the environment
- Partnering organizations
- Bamato buys plastic waste from the group. Kiboswa market neighbourhood engages the group in clean-ups activities. KASDEM buys organic manure from the group. Municipality provides tools and equipment especially brooms, wheelbarrows and slashes. Umande Trust, Kisumu Polytechnique, UN-Habitat, SIDA and ILO provide training.
- Affiliations
- Civil society organization, Donor, Government, Ngo, Waste picker organization
- Funding
- Self funded
- Internal elections
- Every 2 years
- Women composition
- 100,0%
Social networking sites
Benefits
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
- Recycling, Selling materials, Transportation, Waste collection
- Treatmet of organic materials
- Composting
- Challenges to access waste
- Foul smell & contamination from waste, Lack of infrastructure & resources, Transportation
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009