WIEGO News & Events
WIEGO co-organizes the
First World Conference of Waste Pickers
in Bogota, Colombia, March 2008.
More than 250 representatives of waste picker organizations (unions, coops, associations) and supportive NGOs, development agencies, governments, researchers, companies from 34 countries participated in the First World Conference of Waste Pickers and the Third Latin American Conference of Waste Pickers from 1-4 March 2008.
WIEGO organised the Conference in partnership with waste picker and support organizations from across the world, including the Latin American Network of Waste pickers, the Trade Union of Waste pickers in India (KKPKP) and the AVINA Foundation through an International Steering Committee. This committee was composed of 12 representatives from 8 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia planned and oversaw the Conference. The Bogota Association of Waste Pickers, composed of 25 waste picker cooperatives, hosted this remarkable event.
For more detailed information see:
Waste Pickers without Frontiers, First International and Third Latin American Conference of Waste-Pickers. Bogota, Colombia, 1-4 March 2008, Report of Conference Proceedings:
Chris Bonner, Wastepickers without Frontiers, South African Labour Bulletin, Vol. 32 Number 4 October/November 2008
Project Steering Committee
- Silvio Ruiz Grisales, Asociación
Nacional de Recicladores de Colombia
- Ezequiel Estay, Asociación
de Recicladores, La Serena, Chile
- Ricardo Valencia, Avina Colombia
- Sonia Dias, Minas Gerais Waste and
Citizenship Forum, Brazil, GWG
- Luiz Henriques, Movimento de Cartoneros
de Brazil
- Severino Lima, Movimento de Cartoneros
de Brazil
- Laxmi Narayan, KKPKP, India, CWG
- Laila Iskander, CID, Egypt, GWG
- Martin Medina, Institute of Global
Environmental Strategies, Japan, CWG
- Chris Bonner, WIEGO Organisation
and Representation Programme, South Africa
- Carmen Roca, WIEGO, Latin America
Regional Coordinator, Peru
- Sharit Bhowmik, WIEGO Urban Policies Programme, India
Project Advisors
- Pat Horn, International Coordinator,
StreetNet, South Africa and WIEGO Organisation and Representation
Programme
- Renana Jhabvala, Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA) and WIEGO Steering Committee Chair
Conference web site: www.recicladores.net