10 Girgis Eisa Street, Manshiet Nasser, Cairo Egypt
Cairo
Égypte
- Arts
- Democracy and community development
- Environment/Sustainable development
- Gender
- International/Cultural relations
- Youth and education
Brief Mission Statement of Organization:
Promote the community of recyclers and upgrade the trade for generations of youths.
Specific goals are:
1. Shape the development of our community by upgrading communities and families of garbage collectors and recyclers, by providing health, education and environmental services
2. Train youths on source segregation of waste in order to promote recycling and establish youths as makers of environmental programs, projects and practices.
3. Facilitate access to income generating opportunities for youths with a focus on recycling.
4. Provide drop outs from formal educational system with non formal learning opportunities and integrate them into the formal system whenever possible.
5. Transfer know how to other youths and communities
6. Protect the environment by providing cleaning services, environmental protection and tree planting
7. Engage neighborhood youths in implementing community based projects
Project Objectives
1. To test a pilot project on a number of households (5,000 – 10,000) to source segregate household waste into wet and dry
2. To train public awareness team on the public awareness campaign for source segregation of residential waste
3. To implement an awareness campaign among residents on the benefits of segregating household waste into wet and dry.
4. To train garbage collectors on how to collect source segregated household waste.
5. To generate higher income through recycling unsoiled non-organic waste, and open up opportunities for expanding business and creating new jobs for the Zabbaleen.
Stakeholders
1- International Center for Environment and Development (ICED)
2- AMA Arab (AAEC)
3- Garbage collectors in Ezet El Nakhl
4- Residents in the units designated by AMA Arab in the Northern zone of Cairo
5- The Cairo Cleansing and Beautification Authority.