Dar residents will benefit from AMREF's household waste recycling program

The new initiative to be launched next month should benefit women economically while helping to keep the environment clean.

The Buguruni, Kipawa, Vingunguti and Kiwalani groups will also be trained in the transformation of waste into products under the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene (WASH) program led by the Amref Health Africa Tanzania project

. Mturi director James told The Guardian on the Sabasaba website this weekend that the program aims to empower women in poor communities and protect the environment.
He said that the WASH program contains a component that deals with solid waste.

The two-year project that began last year in collaboration with Ilala City Council aims to directly benefit 100,000 people in the four neighborhoods.

He noted that the project would also serve the government's efforts to make the city clean since the chosen neighborhoods are among the dirtiest of the city.

Statistics show that a resident of a city could produce at least 500 grams of waste every day. But, the challenge has been the lack of adequate garbage dumpsites with the Pugu landfill being the only one in Dar es Salaam.

According to Amref, the program will change the state of mind of residents to start thinking that domestic waste is also a useful raw material.

Apart from this, AMREF will also donate a tricycle per group for the collection of waste as raw materials for the production of these products.