Kabulig sa Kinaiyahan | PHINLA Global Program
Empowering Waste Workers in the Community Turn over of pedicabs and PPE's to one of PHINLA's new beneficiary. The German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Global Development (BMZ) funded the PHINLA Project, implemented by EcoWaste Coalition and World Vision . PHINLA, coined from the name countries the project is being implemented in (the Philippines, Indonesia, and Sri Lanka) seeks to empower waste workers and communities affected by poor waste management by using waste as a resource to create meaningful employment and to earn income, while tackling health and environmental issues associated with waste management. In the Philippines, only three (3) barangays were chosen to be a part its program and one of those barangay is Barangay Cugman. In Brgy. Cugman, Cagayan de Oro, Northern Mindanao, one of the project’s main initiatives, to date, involved organizing the waste workers association and training them to create a better collection system and MRF for the commu...
