Turning waste into wealth for 1000 households

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Engaging 1000 households in solid waste management, thereby improving the living environment for poor people as well as rejuvenating soil and safeguarding agricultural biodiversity. progress reportread updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

With industrialisation and urbanisation, the quantity of waste is increasing and the composition of waste is becoming more diversified. Today, waste in India is being burnt or dumped; either producing hazardous smoke or leeching into the soil and water. Implementing solid waste management schemes in Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu, would mobilise entire communities around the waste-issue, while offering a simple solution for how to turn "waste into wealth" - e.g. vermicomposting and recycling.

Activities

We will implement solid waste management schemes where the community is mobilised and learns the importance of segregating their household waste. The waste will be collected and processed through e.g. composting, biogas, recycling, etc.

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: $12,551
Remaining Goal to be Funded: $20,449
Total Funding Goal: $33,000

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

The project will manage the waste of 1000 households in an environmentally sustainable manner, thereby improving the local environment. It will also give employment to 10-15 individuals, and especially to women, from marginalised sections of society.

Project Message

This project is an excellent example of sustainable development amongst the poorest. It has multiple effects on the community – environmental protection and empowerment of poor communities and women.
- Mr Nachiappan Amuthasekaran, Chief Project Coorfinator

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Sofia Altafi,
International Coordinator
Hand in Hand
Planiavagen 1
Nacka, Nacka 13134
Sweden
46704934695
Email:

Project Sponsor

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Organization

Hand in Hand Trust
270 Vandavasi Road, Chinna Kancheepuram
Periyar Nagar
Kancheepuram District, Tamil Nadu 631 503
India
+91-44-272 670 65
http://www.hihseed.org

Learn more about Hand in Hand Trust and the project team.



Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in India and can also be found under Environment.

For more information about India, read the Human Development Report on India or the Wikipedia entry for India.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on August 02, 2007.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on May 08, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Waste into Wealth

By Hand in Hand SEED - Project organization, August 02, 2007 07:11 PM

Our newly launched Solid Waste Management Project has jump-started and we are now active in five places. In Mudichur, the project has now been extended to 1,400 households and user payment is collected from four-fifths of the households. In Nathapettai, where we have our new office, 500 households have been covered, and in Uzhavarkarai, Pondicherry, 560 households are now included in the project. We are also
finalising a compost park in Kancheepuram.

Thanks to a grant from the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency (Sida), our core team has spent two weeks in Sweden and visited biogas plants, recycling stations, compost sheds, and environmental research institutes and NGOs all over the country. They have returned to Tamil Nadu full of new ideas and plans for the future.

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