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  • WIEGO School Inauguration News
    Building Collective Power May 05, 2022

    WIEGO School: Education brings power to workers’ organizations to transform their lives and societies!

    The WIEGO School starts at a time when all four sectors—domestic workers, home-based workers, street and market vendors, and waste pickers—have...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Cooperativas de catadores – colchão amortecedor contra os piores impactos da pandemia

    • As cooperativas de catadores funcionaram como um colchão amortecedor para os catadores do Brasil (termo pelo qual são conhecidos no país)...

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  • Resource Documents

    Impactos da pandemia de Covid-19 sobre a Reciclagem Inclusiva nas Cooperativas de Catadores no Brasil: Análise Comparativa 2020 – 2021

    Principais Achados: As cooperativas foram rápidas na implementação dos protocolos COVID-19 nos seus galpões, conseguindo assim maior credibilidade...

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  • Kayayei carry goods on their heads in Kantamanto Market in Accra, Ghana Post
    Child Care March 04, 2022

    International Women’s Day 2022

    For International Women’s Day, WIEGO looks at the foundation that women leaders of worker organizations have laid during the pandemic...

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  • Coura Ndiaye, a leader of Bokk Diom, washing bottles at the Mbeubeuss dump in Dakar, Senegal in January 2017 Worker Story

    Coura Ndiaye – a waste picker leader in Dakar, Senegal

    Coura Ndiaye – or “Mother Coura” as people call her out of respect for her age and the number of years she has worked as a waste picker –...

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  • Norma Palacios Worker Story

    Norma Palacios, a domestic worker leader in Mexico City

    Norma Palacios is one of the co-founders and leaders of SINACTRAHO, a domestic workers’ union in Mexico that seeks to raise awareness of...

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  • Advocacy Materials

    Cooperatives Cushion Catadores Against Worst of Pandemic

    Key Points Waste-picker cooperatives cushioned Brazil’s waste pickers (known locally as catadores) against the worst economic impacts of...

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  • Resource Documents

    Inclusive Recycling in Waste Picker Cooperatives in Brazil: Impacts of COVID-19 Comparative Analysis 2020-2021

    See related brief. Key Points: Cooperatives were able to quickly implement COVID-19 protocols in the sorting sheds, thus achieving greater...

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  • Renu at her stall in Bangkok, Thailand, before the pandemic, in 2015 Worker Story

    Renu, a Vendor Leader in Bangkok, Thailand

    ภาษาไทย   Renu is the leader of the Muubaan Nakila Service Cooperative, which is active in her housing estate in Bangkok. Along with other...

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  • Workstation of a home-based worker in Ahmedabad, India Worker Story

    Reshmaben Bashirkhan Pathan, a home-based worker organizer in Ahmedabad, India

    Reshmaben is an organizer with the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA). She learnt tailoring from her mother when she was 14. Now, at...

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