ECOaction is a registered environmental non-profit organization, operating in Banda, an unplanned settlement in Kampala, Uganda, supporting disadvantaged youth and women since 2011
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ECOaction supports disadvantaged youths and women through multiple activities, aiming to build sustainable livelihoods as well as new and additional income opportunities.
Over the last seven years, we worked with agroup of garbage collectors, who lived in the Banda area. This community consists of 106 individuals, mainly single mothers and children, who collect and sort garbage, like plastic bottles or scrap metal, for saleable items. |
For specific activities, unemployed youths also joined, engaging in urban farming (kitchen gardens and poultry); briquette making from biodegradable waste; composting; greenhouse construction; construction of children’s playgrounds; building bathroom shelters out of plastic bottles; public art installations; school libraries or conducting waste management workshops.
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Our goal is to create an environmental movement in Uganda which promotes the benefits of an eco-friendly society beyond trash, and where empowered and responsible citizens live in harmony with their environment.
