Clean Neighbourhoods
Goals
To make available unused labor hours from the unemployed individuals willing to join the Mutual Aid Group that focuses on garbage collection and disposal. Mutual Aid Groups organized in this area of focus will help improve sanitation, clean and beautify the neighborhoods, and enhance health and safety.
Overview
- This Mutual Aid Group consists of sanitation workers who will work in selected areas to collect waste along specific routes within a Communal Section. They picked up garbage and disposed of it in specified locations, as indicated by the Communal Section administration. They use their own tools and transportation means. They receive a monthly participation incentive from Reciprocitas and weekly training from the partnering organization where they work. A Mutual Aid Group Facilitator supervises them. The Mutual Aid Group facilitators receive training to conduct groups and keep records. They are not subject-matter experts. A Communal Section may have more than one Mutual Aid Group with a focus on garbage collection.
- The mutual aid group members provide a location so the Mutual Aid Group Facilitator can offer the weekly training. They also join Farmers Field Schools when these are available in the communal section. Individuals and families who received this service work in return for 10 hours every week in selected areas side by side with the sanitation workers to collect waste along specific routes within a Communal Section.
Job Description
- They remove refuse from residential and commercial areas.
- They use a locally-made horse-drawn vehicle or a truck to provide regular service of garbage collection.
- They empty garbage bags in the haul or into the truck.
- They drive a horse-drawn vehicle or a truck to the designated depot after the refuse has been collected.
- They sort the waste and send a portion for incineration and the recyclables to a recycling plant.
- They take to a recycling plant anything that can be recycled.
- They put the incinerated refuse into a landfill, and they cover it with dirt.
- They encourage the community to practice waste sorting at home.