2023 was another busy year for the project and our partners Chemolex in Nairobi. And a year in which we benefitted from continuation funding, extending the original 3-year project by a further year, from UC Santa Barbara and the Benioff and Coca-Cola Foundations.
Main activities throughout the year were continuing to operate the riverside trash collection sites, and continue the plastic sorting and recycling operation, and continuing to work with community youth and women’s groups to transform and manage riverside community spaces. Particular extension activities included researching the manufacture of recycled plastic fence poles to complement the existing line of recycled plastic paving slabs, to rehabilitate two further riverside spaces to establish two new community parks, and to solve the issue of finding a use for the organic wastes collected from the rivers (mainly wood and paper-related products) by building and commissioning a community cooker and bakery facility. This utilises around 1.5 tonnes of dry organic waste daily to bake bread and prepare meals for more than 100 children in one of the riverside slum communities.
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