After six months of engaging and providing plastic waste management and recycling training to 167 youth and women in the Kroo Bay and Cockle Bay slums, our team officially kicked off the Building Climate Resilience in the Slums Project in Susan’s Bay, the last beneficiary community of the project.
The kickoff purposely started with engagement on plastic waste problems in the slums and reusable trash bags and personal protective equipment use in plastic waste management, using the same engagement model as Kroo Bay and Cockle Bay.
More than 50 young people and women across the community gathered to participate in the project. During the engagement, they learn about their community’s exposure to plastic pollution and its impact, such as flooding, which directly affects them and the wider community. They also learned about the benefits of using eco-friendly trash bags and personal protective equipment for collecting plastic waste for recycling purposes.
The engagement on these topics was led by the Project Coordinator, Elijah Edwin, with support from the rest of the project team, including the Project Manager, Alusine Hassan Bangura, Project Coordinator, Emma Patricia Turay, Assistant Project Coordinator, Amida Kamara, Recycling Educator, Santigie Koroma, and the Route 360 Solutions Initiative Business Development Representative, Mohamed Kickende Conteh.
The engagement will serve as a foundation for the project’s upcoming recycling training, where the beneficiaries will be trained to recycle single-use plastic waste into ecobricks for pavement project, using the Training-the-Trainer approach. The project will be implemented in the next three months, with 83 youth and women to be empowered to reach the project goal of equipping 250 beneficiaries in Kroo Bay, Cockle Bay, and Susan’s Bay.