Impact. Delivered.

Norah is an activist and founder of the Association of Recyclers of Bogota (ARB). It is one of the oldest waste picker organizations in the world, and represents and empowers over 13,000 informal recyclers in Colombia.

The organization now represents the city’s 3,000 informal waste recyclers but Norah's story started with her waste picking and recycling when she was just 7 years old. Her first-hand experiences of the challenges faced by informal waste pickers led her achieve formal recognition for informal recyclers.

We're proud to have her in our family of passionate changemakers, and to work with ARB at our project Sueño Azul in Bogotá.

Bindu is a waste worker and the sole breadwinner in her family. A year ago, her husband, a coconut tree climber, fell and was injured. It is now down to Bindu to financially support him and their two children.

Bindu earns money by being part of the Haritha Karma Sena: a local government programme for women to collect household waste in Kerala. Through the Haritha Karma Sena’s partnership with Green Worms and rePurpose Global, Bindu has seen her income from waste collection increase, and her status in the community enhanced: “Through this work, many people started to recognize me, and our neighbors have a positive opinion about my job... We raised awareness about the effects of waste pollution, and we no longer see waste in the river."

Prince is the founder of Coliba, a leading Ghanaian plastic waste management and recycling company.
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Prince worked in an international technology business until a life-changing event in June 2015. Devastating flooding in his home city of Accra took the life of his best friend. When Prince found that a major underlying cause of the flood was mismanaged plastic waste blocking local drainage systems he set about to change the story - Coliba was born.

Our ongoing partnership has enabled more plastic recovery and new income streams in Accra, and funded technology roll-outs to collection centres and worker training.