Will you help women get food and clean water for their children?
Doreen often faces an impossible choice - buy food or clean water for her children. She works tirelessly on Kenya’s dumpsites, sorting through dangerous waste, but unfair wages leave her struggling to survive.
It’s not right. But with your help, it CAN change.
Your gift can help a mother like Doreen gain skills to make a better living. With your help, VSO experts can train women to find valuable waste and negotiate fair prices, so they don’t have to choose between clean water and food.
Donate today to help a mother like Doreen provide for her children. Stand shoulder to shoulder with women transforming waste into wages.
Will you stand with women transforming waste into wages?
Doreen and her children live in unsafe conditions without essentials like water or electricity. As a waste picker, she collects rubbish to sell for recycling but is exploited for the waste she collects, leaving her struggling to provide for her family.
Doreen’s biggest hope is to give her children a better future. But without fair pay, she’s trapped in a cycle of exploitation. It’s not right.
Your gift can help women like Doreen earn a fair wage and provide food and clean water for their families. With training from VSO experts and access to better buyback centres, women can increase their income and build brighter futures for their children.
Help women like Doreen transform their lives. Stand shoulder to shoulder with women fighting for fair wages.
Will you help ensure women’s futures aren’t thrown away?
Dandora is a slum in Nairobi, Kenya, and home to 140,000 people. Lorries bring up to 2,000 tonnes of waste from across the city to their home every day. Among the dangerous, filthy waste are women collecting recycling to sell and feed their families.
Without protective equipment, they face cuts, infections, and disease, often living nearby in cramped slums where waste spills into their homes. With no other options, many bring their children with them to the dumpsites, where they risk tragic accidents amidst heavy machinery.
Women waste workers are exploited, often viewed as “dirty” and given unfairly low prices for their hard work. But with your support, VSO experts can offer essential resources that change lives. Women working on the rubbish dumps are doing an essential job, recycling waste. With your support, expert VSO volunteers can help them:
- Work safely (everyone is provided with protective clothing).
- Live safely in an area where there are high levels of crime and drug and alcohol abuse.
- Sort waste, which will enable them to get a better price.
- Prioritise items that have a higher value.
- Use a buyback centre that will give them a fair price for the waste they pick.
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Keep children safe. By building affordable childcare centres near the dumpsites, giving mothers a safe place to leave their children while they work, and allowing them to focus on their jobs without fear for their children's safety.
VSO has an ambitious plan to help 3,900 waste pickers to improve their livelihoods and for 6,000 tonnes of waste to be collected. Will you help?
Please, donate today, and help make sure women’s futures aren’t thrown away.
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