Participants of the training

In order to raise awareness among the community people on waste management, NRC-NFE has been organizing trainings on waste management for literacy class learners, facilitators, functional group leaders, women group leaders and community people. As its aim, it has organized 3-day training on waste management for learners group leaders, facilitators, social mobilizers and CLC personnel in Lumbini in June 2007. The major contents discussed in the trainings were:

-Concept of waste materials
-Problems created by untreated wastes
-Source of wastes
-Principles of 3 R’s, Reduce, Reuse & Recycle
-Management of organic wastes and preparing green manure
-Bio gas as an alternative energy

It is noteworthy that most of the participants in the training programs have started preparing compost manure with organic wastes. The community people & CLC personnel also emphasized the proper management of wastes materials & developed the ideas of use of waste materials & recycle of waste materials producing different interesting items from the wastes. After proceedings of the composting, they expected the composting container to regularize the compost manure preparation in each of the participants’ home. As a resut, interest of the community people in waste management has increased because it has also focused on how managing waste can become their own good source of income in their daily life.

In March 2008, an orientation session on waste management as well as bio gas was conducted during a training program organized in Lumbini. Total of 47 participants including CLC personnel, group leaders, social mobilizers and facilitators were oriented. Training on waste management for learners and group members in Lalitpur will continue to be organized in coming months. The training was planned to organize in cooperation of Community
Development Section of Lalitpur Municipality which is working for the promotion of women and
waste management.