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.
Manya Sanitation Self-Help group
Kisumu, Kenya
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2007
- Number of members
- 12
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste collectors, Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Self-help group
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- The group has a management committee whose leaders are elected annually via a secret ballot. The management committee is constituted of 2 men and 1 woman. Members pay a membership fee and they fund their activities through member’s contributions, monthly subscription and through donor funds. Kind of records kept by the group include organization assets, sales, debtors and creditors files.
- Objectives
- Contribute to cleaning the environment, improve livelihoods, job creation, independence
- Partnering organizations
- Municipal Council
- Affiliations
- Government
- Funding
- Donor funded, Self funded
- Internal elections
- Annually
- Women composition
- 58,3%
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Clean & healthy environment, Job creation & source of income, Savings or credit scheme
- Safety & Technology
- Yes
Services
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Excellent and/or friendly
- Types of materials
- Household items, Paper and cardboard, Plastics
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Composting, Recycling, Waste collection, Waste sorting
- Treatmet of organic materials
- Composting
- Challenges to access waste
- Foul smell & contamination from waste, Lack of infrastructure & resources, Lack of unity between organizations, Negative attitude towards waste, Price fluctuations of waste
Complementary Information
- Information source
- Africa 2009