WASTE PICKERS RECEIVE LOGISTICS AND TRAINING FOR THEIR WORK UNDER THE HORESD PROJECT
Ninety (90) Waste Pickers from Ohwim, Duase and Sokoban in Kumasi have received logistics and undergone training on Personal Safety protocols from the Holistic Reinforcement for Sustainable Development (HORESD) Project on Wednesday 25thOctober, 2023 at the Forecourt of the KMA.
The logistics includes branded T-Shirts, hand gloves, picking sticks and nose masks. The 90 waste pickers were also oriented on safety ways to avoid contamination and diseases such as cholera, typhoid among others as they embark on their day-to-day activities.
Opening the event, Mayor of Kumasi, Hon. Samuel Pyne said the presentation of the logistics and the training were to help the waste pickers adapt to contemporary ways of picking waste and also aid them in avoiding contaminations.
He noted that during the durbar to launch the Competition for waste Pickers on Friday 5th May, 2023, he promised the waste pickers that they would be supplied with equipment like gloves, nose masks, and picking sticks to enable them effectively execute waste segregation at the community level, which he was fulfilling today.