Manyatta Gonda Solid Waste Management Group
Kisumu, Kenya
Primary information
- Year formed
- 2009
- Formally registered
- No
- Number of members
- 15
- Type of members
- Waste picker support organization
- Occupation of members
- Waste collectors, Waste pickers
- Type of Organization
- Community based organization
- Organizational Reach
- Local
- Workplace of members
- Door to door
- Membership
- Yes
- Organization Structure
- The organization has a Management Committee. The members pay membership fees of Ksh 200 to join and Ksh 50 per week.
- Objectives
- Contribute to cleaning the environment, fight against discrimination and poverty, job creation, improve waste picker living conditions
- Education and training
- Waste management
- Partnering organizations
- KIWAMA, NEMA, ILO, SIDA
- Affiliations
- Donor, Ngo, Waste picker organization
- Funding
- Self funded
- Internal elections
- Every 2 years
- Women composition
- 53,3%
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Benefits
- Member benefits
- Job creation & source of income
- Safety & Technology
- No
Services
- How is the relationship with the municipality?
- Excellent and/or friendly
- Types of materials
- Biodegradable waste, Charcoal, Plastics
- Are they selling to middlemen?
- Yes
- Activities
- Composting, New items made from collected materials, Waste collection, Waste sorting
- 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