Living Earth Foundation
Collecting waste plastic and cans for recycling, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
A man collects plastic and cans for recycling as part of the Waste to Wealth project activities.
Living Earth Foundation has launched a multi-country ‘Waste to Wealth’ project, which responds to the urgent need to improve the lives of the increasing number of improvised and vulnerable people residing in urban slums in sub-Saharan Africa. This project has been implemented by Living Earth Foundation and its local partners in Port Harcourt Nigeria, as well as Kampala (Uganda) and Douala (Cameroon).
The project aims to create a virtuous circle wherein slum dwellers in 9 urban areas in the cities of Port Harcourt (Nigeria), Douala (Cameroon) and Kampala (Uganda) take responsibility for collecting and managing household solid waste: instead of shipping it off to landfill. Social ventures and micro-enterprises will oversee a process of sorting of waste, recycling and re-use. The project will result in a sustained environmental sanitation improvement, with subsequent benefits to the health and well being of slum inhabitants and the emergence of a skilled and effective business sector wherein social enterprises, founded by and in poor urban communities, derive wealth from the provision of environmental services and derivative recycling and re-use activities. The waste becomes the catalyst for income generation and employment creation.
For further information on project activities, please refer to the dedicated project website wastetowealth.ning.com/
Photo by Simone di Vicenz
Collecting waste plastic and cans for recycling, Port Harcourt, Nigeria
A man collects plastic and cans for recycling as part of the Waste to Wealth project activities.
Living Earth Foundation has launched a multi-country ‘Waste to Wealth’ project, which responds to the urgent need to improve the lives of the increasing number of improvised and vulnerable people residing in urban slums in sub-Saharan Africa. This project has been implemented by Living Earth Foundation and its local partners in Port Harcourt Nigeria, as well as Kampala (Uganda) and Douala (Cameroon).
The project aims to create a virtuous circle wherein slum dwellers in 9 urban areas in the cities of Port Harcourt (Nigeria), Douala (Cameroon) and Kampala (Uganda) take responsibility for collecting and managing household solid waste: instead of shipping it off to landfill. Social ventures and micro-enterprises will oversee a process of sorting of waste, recycling and re-use. The project will result in a sustained environmental sanitation improvement, with subsequent benefits to the health and well being of slum inhabitants and the emergence of a skilled and effective business sector wherein social enterprises, founded by and in poor urban communities, derive wealth from the provision of environmental services and derivative recycling and re-use activities. The waste becomes the catalyst for income generation and employment creation.
For further information on project activities, please refer to the dedicated project website wastetowealth.ning.com/
Photo by Simone di Vicenz