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The International Alliance of Waste Pickers is a union of waste picker organizations representing more than 460,000 workers across 34 countries
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List « Waste pickers Around the World (WAW)
This is the list of all the organizations listed in the WAW database:
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Name
Web
SN
Scope
Type of Organization
Type of Member
Number of members
(Number of groups)
Location
Year formed (registration year)
Member occupation
1
Association Bokk Diom des Récupérateurs et recycleurs de Mbeubeuss
local
association
members are waste pickers
1,200
Dakar
,
Senegal
1995 (1998)
waste pickers
2
Association de Femmes Recuperatrices du Benin (AFRB)
local
association
members are waste pickers
1,000
Benin
1997 (2000)
waste pickers
3
Association de recuperateurs du Cameroun (ARC)
local
association
members are waste pickers
300
Cameroon
waste pickers
4
CLD MBL CINGABA
local
association
members are waste pickers
107
Democratic Republic of Congo
2010
waste pickers
5
Collective des groupements intervenant dans l’ Assaissement au Mali (COGIAM)
national
association
members are waste picker organizations
,
members are waste pickers
613 (120)
Bamako
,
Mali
2004
waste collectors
,
waste pickers
6
Coopérative des Récupérateurs de la Commune IV
local
cooperative
members are waste pickers
28
Bamako
,
Mali
waste pickers
7
Hlanganani MaAfrika Waste Picker Cooperative
local
cooperative
members are waste pickers
75
Pietermaritzburg
,
South Africa
2012
waste pickers
8
Ikageng Ditamating
local
cooperative
members are waste pickers
49
Sasolburg
,
South Africa
2009
waste pickers
9
Kpone Landfill Waste Pickers Association
local
association
members are waste pickers
Ghana
2014 (2018)
waste pickers
10
National Association of Scrap and Waste Workers of Nigeria (NASWON)
national
association
members are waste pickers
700
Lagos
,
Nigeria
2018 (2021)
scrap dealers
,
waste pickers
11
Sarbah and Ablekuma
local
association
members are waste pickers
100
Accra
,
Ghana
waste pickers
12
South African Waste Pickers Association (SAWPA)
national
association
,
movement
members are waste picker organizations
,
members are waste pickers
6,000
Pietermaritzburg
,
South Africa
2009
waste pickers
13
Waste Picker Union in Ghana
local
trade union
members are waste pickers
Sarbah, Ablekuma
,
Ghana
waste pickers
14
Waste Pickers Alliance Uganda (APAU)
wpau.org
national
alliance
,
non profit organization
members are waste pickers
169
Kampala
,
Uganda
2001 (2006)
waste pickers
15
Waste Pickers Association of Kenya (WAPAK)
national
association
members are waste pickers
Nakuru
,
Kenya
waste pickers