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%
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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