Will you help mothers get food and clean water for their children?
Doreen often has to make a terrible choice - buy food or clean water for her children. She works tirelessly on Kenya’s dumpsites but barely makes enough 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 volunteers 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. Be part of the change you want to see.
Will you help a mother like Doreen?
Doreen and her children live in an unsafe, cramped space without essentials like water or electricity. As a waste picker, she walks long distances collecting rubbish to sell for recycling but struggles to earn enough to even feed her children.
Doreen's biggest fear is her children’s future. She wants them to have a better life than she did, but she is exploited for the recycling she collects. It’s not right.
Donate today to help a mother like Doreen turn waste into wages. Through training and connections to better buyback centres, she can increase her income and afford food and clean water for her children.
Help a mother like Doreen get food and water for her children. Don't let their futures get thrown away.
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 volunteers 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.
- 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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