Empowering the ragpickers: Design incubators for sanitation workers

Ahmedabad | Monday | 7th October, 2019

Summary:

Imagine a beautiful purse hanging in a European upmarket store made by sanitation workers using opening clips on soft drink cans. U have of taken coffee cups inserted in a machine to give you cup of hot coffee different flavours. We could not stop manual scavenging yet, but can we not empower the sanitation workers to repurpose the waste materials in a way that these acquire a new value, new lifecycle and a new market niche? These incubators will also fund the start-ups of local sanitation workers, paying thus a tribute to Mahatma in 150th year. Let us generate jobs, reuse/repurpose waste and empower the sanitation workers in a dignified and entrepreneurial way..