Asia

117 children of waste pickers receive government scholarships

Hasiru Dala | Region Asia | Jul 23, 2015

117 children of wastepickers in Bangalore receive scholarships worth INR 216,450. The scholarship programme is initiated by Ministry of Social Justice and Empowerment at the Union ...

Laws and Legislation

Pimpri-Chinchwad waste pickers win minimum wage battle

Hasiru Dala | Region Asia | Jul 22, 2015

The members of Kagad, Kach, Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) – wastepickers have been providing waste management services to the residents of Pimpri Chinchwad for years now. Th...

Laws and Legislation

On Environment Day, Delhi’s waste recyclers shared their message

Safai Sena/Chintan | Region Asia | Jul 01, 2015

On Environment Day, Safai Sena, a registered organization of Delhi’s waste recyclers presented a memorandum to the Chief Minister, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal. The memorandum was to char...

Rallies

New municipal waste laws continue to exclude waste workers

AIKMM | Region Asia | May 25, 2015

New Municipal Solid Waste, e-Waste, Bio-medical Waste and Plastic Waste Draft Rules of 2015 continue to Exclude Waste Workers Date: 25 May (Thursday) 2015 Time: 10:00 am to 5:30 pm...

Laws and Legislation

Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers’ National Workshop, 2015

Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers (AIW) | Region Asia | May 01, 2015

Background The Alliance of Indian Wastepickers (AIW) is a national network coalition of membership based organizations working on organizing informal waste workers for ensuring the...

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Massive fire in waste pickers’ community: appeal for help

Chintan | Region Asia | May 01, 2015

On April 26, 2015, there was a massive fire at the waste picker’s community at Panchsheel Colony, Bhopura in Ghaziabad at around 12:30am. Over 150 shanties have been gutted altho...

Landfills

Clean stations, green stations: a Swachh Bharat initiative

Chintan | Region Asia | Apr 23, 2015

Chintan in partnership with the Indian Railways celebrated Earth Day on April 22nd, 2015 at the New Delhi Railway Station. The Divisional Railway Manager, Northern Railways and his...

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Plastic Industry Invites, Then Throws Out Green NGO from meet

CHINTAN | Region Asia | Apr 13, 2015

Chintan was invited to a conference of The All India Plastics Manufacturers’ Association on 7th April at the India International Centre, on NGT case on PET and Plastic...

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Provide education to 100 waste picker children

Chintan | Region Asia | Mar 27, 2015

Watch the video Summary The project seeks to enable children living in extremely violence-ridden, poor, and socio-culturally marginalized waste-picking community in India to reach ...

Child labor and education

Bhopura Youth Times: The voice of waste picker children

Chintan | Region Asia | Feb 20, 2015

Chintan is proud to present the Bhopura Youth Times- a newsletter put together by the wastepicker youth at Bhopura, Tila Mod, Mangal Bazaar Ghazaiabad, an area which is home to a l...

Child labor and education

KKPKP waste pickers win a minimum wage, ID cards and life insurance

KKPKP | Region Asia | Feb 14, 2015

The three hundred waste picker members of Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat (KKPKP) engaged by the Pimpri Chinchwad Municipal Corporation have won a hard fought battle for Mini...

Inclusive models Social security

Waste pickers in India demand freedom from unfair contracts

KKPKP | Region Asia | Feb 13, 2015

The PCMC has appointed 300 waste pickers for door to door collection of waste through labour supply contractors. As per law, it is mandatory to pay such workers minimum wages presc...

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“Trash Mountain”: Photos from Ghazipur landfill

Sebastian Castelier | Region Asia | Feb 13, 2015

“With no real system of waste collection, the dump sites have been extended beyond the municipal borders,” reads the introduction to a series of photos by Sebastian Cas...

Landfills

Waste picker speaks at Conference at IIM Ahmedabad

Chintan | Region Asia | Jan 20, 2015

Jayaprakash Chowdury, a wastepicker in Delhi and now Secretary of Safai Sena, an army of cleaners, was invited to be a keynote speaker at the ongoing ICCIG3- the Third Internationa...

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Safai Sena holds its annual meeting

Chintan/Safai Sena | Region Asia | Jan 01, 2015

On December 27, 2014 Safai Sena held its annual meeting. Around 1100 waste recyclers from various waste recyclers’ communities were present. Safai Sena area leaders from each com...

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Waste pickers and other social movements gathered in Delhi to assert rights

KKPKP | Region Asia | Dec 02, 2014

More than 250 members from KKPKP, Stree Mukti Sanghatna and Kachra Kamgar Union, as well as members of Safai Sena and Chintan, along with thousands of workers, farmers, pensioners,...

Child labor and education Rallies Social security

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