We often find ourselves questioning why is it that we keep giving and people just keep receiving without “earning” it.  Did people lose their pride amongst all the poverty?  Why are poor communities more exposed to pollution?   Why is it that these communities are more prone to diseases?

Some of the poor health effects of waste disposal practices include the accumulation of harmful substances. They are also a breeding ground for pathogens. Finally, they could release a mass epidemic upon a community.

Bad waste management practices can result in land and air pollution which can cause various health problems within such a community for example: Respiratory and other adverse health effects as contaminants are absorbed from the lungs into other parts of the body. 

A community with poor sanitation and waste problems do not attract tourists, investors and people wanting to live in that community.  Such communities tend to have poor living standards and children are exposed to poor development.

Paying it forward introduced a concept of earning “Mahala” points.  “Mahala” points are obtainable by trading any recyclable items like paper, glass and  plastics in turn you can purchase clothes, food items, school stationery, toiletries, basically anything that we have in our “Mahala” shop.  All these items that are in our shop are donations received from companies and ordinary people like you and me.

 

PURPOSE

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• To instil self-worth, pride and dignity that gets lost along the way for being poor.

• Curbing the effect that pollution have on people’s health and poor early childhood development

• Address unemployment, creating jobs for people living in the community.

 

 

 

OUTCOME

This project has a positive impact on education in the community, it increased school attendance, children are more likely to obtain their matric qualification, this can potentially “BREAK THE VISIOUS POVERTY CYCLE”

Teaching valuable life skills, values and business skills across all ages in the community and with each adult to work for what they need and this will in turn show the children a way out of the poverty cycle that hard work is needed.

A better overall functional community ensuring continuity and stability in a poverty stricken community.  Treating the “chronic decease” of being poor! 

Everyone in the community is benefiting, young and old.  THIS IS THE TRUE MEANING OF PAYING IT FORWARD… Parents paying it forward to their children, their children paying it forward to their children.

Efficient and effective waste management is best achieved at household levels.

If every person in the community gets involved, they can have a powerful effect on their environment and in each and every household.

So many times, people want to do the right thing but they don’t know where to start and don’t know if their actions will make any difference — Wrong!!

There are so many families in the Claremont community who appreciate the magnitude of the waste problem and are eager to do the right thing. 

There is currently no waste collection programmes within this community.  Then there is no better time to implement this concept than now.