Empowering Disadvantaged Women through Turning Trash & Wastes to Treasure

GOAL: 500 Women empowered through acquirement of skills on how to turn trash to treasure
and selling the products

OBJECTIVE: 500 women empowered through skills training and seed capital

BACKGROUND
The project “Trash to Treasure” is about using waste products and trash in our society and adding value to them by turning them to something valuable which is sellable as Income Generating Venture. Most people do not see the opportunities in our environment to engage them for their economic use. This project therefore shall involve helping targeted women see such opportunities around them and also giving them skills to be able to turn trash and wastes around them into useful and valuable products that can be sold at an economic price. This therefore also promotes recycling of wastes and reducing wastes around communities thereby improving our environment.

BENEFITS OF THE PROJECT

1. 1. Through training and empowerment, it will help to add value to the lives of targeted women who are vulnerable and poor because of circumstances beyond their control.
   2. The participants will be taught how to make handmade bags, sandals, earrings, bangles, etc. from trash thereby turning wastes to treasures.
   3. Participants can with the training start their own fashion outfits thereby creating jobs for themselves.
   4. The training will also empower women to be able to meet their personal needs thereby making them financially independent.
   5. The training will help in better utilizing the trash from fashion outfits by using byproducts for this purpose.
   6. The project will enhance waste management around targeted communities.
   7. The project will help alleviate poverty in the lives of poor women.
   8. Because the materials needed for the project are cheap, the cost of establishing businesses after the training is relatively cheap too.

LIST OF POSSIBLE PRODUCTS FROM TRAINING

1. Bags
2. Sandals
3. Bangles
4. Harleys band
5. Book cover
6. Earrings, etc.

PARTICIPANTS: Vulnerable and poor Women; Women of the age 25-45 The training will involve teaching women to make bags and shoes from fabric pieces from tailor shops and fashion houses which are no longer useful to the tailors. The training will be encouraging women to go and collect this so called trash and making them into treasures.Other materials that will be used are local materials to make bags and shoes.