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Titre : Trash to Treasury : Teaching Women to Give New Lives to Plastic Bags (Senegal)

Pays : Senegal

Date : 2012

Présentation
Like many big cities, Tambacounda, the largest city in Eastern Senegal has a serious trash problem. Generating income is also a major challenge, especially for women, in combination with domestic duties. A small community-based organization, Khel ak Khalath, intends to combine and address these seemingly disparate challenges in a unique, cost-effective way. Over the course of a three-day training, a group of 30 women will learn how to best collect, sanitize and crochet into marketable items from the plastic bags that are so pervasive in the streets of Tambacounda. Participants will be trained to successfully showcase their products via regional artisanal fairs, local markets and through the small local tourism industry.

Project Update
Success ! The local women’s group cleaned the area around a local orphanage and learned to crochet decorative pieces from collected and sanitized trash. In addition to cleaning the area of trash and building a relationship to the local orphanage, the women’s group raised 9,000 CFA from the sales of their crafts, which is nine times more than what they predicted they would raise !

Budget : $445.00

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