Living Earth Uganda, Living Earth Foundation's key local partner in Uganda, helped to foster a partnership between Nansana's town council and two community based organisations, Nabugabo Investment Ltd and the Nansana Twezimbe Group, to manage the town's solid waste problem, as part of the Waste to Wealth project activities.

Living Earth Foundation launched the Waste to Wealth Project to respond to the urgent need of improving the lives of the increasing number of improvised and vulnerable people residing in urban slum areas in sub-Saharan Africa. The project has been implemented by the Living Earth Foundation and its local partners in Kampala (Uganda), Douala (Cameroon) and Port Harcourt (Nigeria). In Uganda, the project has built upon the foundations of the 2009 Enhancing Plastic Waste Collection in the Kampala District Project.

The project aims to create a virtuous circle wherein slum dwellers take responsibility for collecting and managing household solid waste. Instead of shipping this waste off to landfill, social ventures and micro-enterprises oversee a process of sorting of waste, recycling and re-use. The project's objective is to ensure sustained environmental sanitation improvements, with subsequent benefits in the health and well being of slum inhabitants.

As well as the environmental benefits, the project helps to foster the emergence of a skilled and effective business sector wherein social enterprises, founded by and in poor urban communities, derive wealth from the provision of environmental services and derivative recycling and re-use activities. The waste therefore becomes the catalyst for income generation and employment creation.

Further information regarding the Waste to Wealth project activities can be found on the project specific website: [ Ссылка ]

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