On October 7, 2017, Manja Pamodzi successfully held their 7th road show in Chunga in the project’s second round of roadshows. The event which started at 09:00 captured the attention of scores of Chunga residents through exciting dance, music and theatrical performances which were used to sensitize the people about good waste management practices and

Working as collector of discarded waste can never be easy; often times, onlookers think that such activities are for insane people. As a result, some may hesitate joining the project fearing the stigma and perhaps the discrimination that could come along. But for Violet Makina from N’gombe compound, such negative perceptions do not deter her

To ensure that collectors remain motivated and are productive, aggregators, the second set of the value chain, are responsible for receiving the recyclable material and eventually selling it off to processing companies. “Working as an aggregator for Manja Pamodzi is an exciting job,” comments Chawama aggregator Alarm Mulenga. “Collectors gather packs of Chibbuku and old

“To ensure full support for both collectors and aggregators, companies such as Union Packaging buy the sorted and collected recyclable material and make end products such as egg trays. “As Union Packaging, we have an agreement with Manja Pamodzi through the aggregators”, says Union Packaging Managing Director Kunal Patel, ” we often buy the collected