Support Community Development Through Recycling in India!

From the time she was a small child, Annamma would work with her illiterate parents and four siblings, picking and sorting trash to sell to recyclers.

As an adult, she worked long, hot, grimy hours alongside her husband Ramesh to pick and recycle garbage, providing as best they could for their three young daughters. They were harassed by the police, looked on as thieves for 'stealing' other people’s garbage that had been discarded on the streets and in the dumps.

Annamma’s life began to change with the Global Communities' Trash to Treasure project which launched in 2009 to create a trash collection system in Bangalore. Today, Annamma no longer picks up garbage. Instead, she is the manager of a dry waste collection center where workers sort trash and separate paper, plastic and glass to sell to scrap dealers and recyclers.

Global Communities' Trash to Treasure program supports the rights, dignity, recognition, and security of the estimated 15,000 informal garbage collectors in Bangalore.

Community support is what makes this program a success. Please, take action today and send a message to the people of Bangalore that you stand with their efforts to keep the streets clean and provide steady employment through Trash to Treasure!