Mysore, Tumkur, Chamrajnagar, Chitradurga, South Kannada, Davangere, Dharwad, Bangalore, Kolar

Karnataka

The Hasiru Mane or Green home programme of Hasiru Dala focuses on supporting waste pickers to realise their dream of owning a house at an affordable cost. It partners with State Government agencies to identify land and get them allotted to the waste pickers and also provision for zero-interest finance.

Karnataka

Due to the waste pickers being outside the formal waste management space, the organisation found that they do not have access to welfare schemes and Government benefits. Hasiru Dala proceeded to set this right by first getting identity cards issued to the waster pickers followed by establishing proof of residence. This enabled the waste pickers to access various welfare schemes operated by the Government.

As the waste pickers were an untrained workforce, their contribution to effective waste management was seen to be minimal. The organisation to address this launched certification programmes in partnership with Jain University and the Waste Wise Trust. It has developed a manual for organic waste management and terrace gardening in addition to developing four training manuals on the subject of waste management.

Chamrajnagar, Bangalore, Tumkur

Karnataka

To help the children of waste pickers access quality education and learning facilities the organisation works on several programmes including extending scholarships and educational loans, providing hostel facilities to children who need urgent rehabilitation, setting up community libraries and mobile libraries to reach the underprivileged, imparting life skills through the medium of arts, an annual workshop to bring school drop-outs into the mainstream and conducting the annual read aloud day celebration where volunteers read aloud to children in schools, communities, libraries and public spaces.

Bangalore

Karnataka

Its livelihood programme sets out to provide dignity of labour to the waste workers. The waste workers were working as an unorganised force collecting and dumping waste. Hasiru Dala is transforming the workforce by training and upgrading waste pickers to become service providers instead.

It trains the workers in organic waste management, event waste management, and through a certification course enhancing skills of small entrepreneurs in the recycling industry, in collaboration with Waste Wise Trust and Jain University.

It also advocates for relevant changes in legislation to include waste pickers as a formal workforce providing a stable income for them. It initiated the work of establishing dry waste collection centres in prominent cities of Karnataka considering the social, economic and environmental impacts.