Trash and plastic is a big threath in Zimbabwe, and we want to do what we can to help on the situation. Together with good help from Engineers Without Borders Norway, we’ve started the project “From waste to value” where we’re trying to turn trash into value. We are teaching about how plastic and trash in general can be recycled into a new life, how it can become a sweather, shoes or other things of value. The goal with this project is that we will have our own recycling station where we can turn plastic to water buckets, chairs and other things you can use.  

For now the covid has put the project a little bit on hold, but we’re hoping to kickstart it again very soon. Just before the pandemic we arranged two big clean-up campaigns where we collected more than 600 kg of trash just around the orphanage. Last December we had planned for a big clean-up week with schools, neigbors, Hope-families and the orphanage. Unfortunately the restrictions forced us to cancel, but we will do it as soon as it’s possible.

Together with the help from Empower and Vestre we will try for the Hope-families to pay back their microloans by collecting and recycling plastic. We are so excited to see how it will work.