[Reader-list] Health and Dignity to Waste-pickers & Recylers! Join the Red Dot Campaign!

[Kabir Khan]

Health and Dignity to Waste-pickers & Recylers
<https://wastenarratives.com/2017/02/08/health-and-dignity-to-waste-pickers-recylers-join-the-red-dot-campaign/>Join
the Red Dot Campaign!
<https://wastenarratives.com/2017/02/08/health-and-dignity-to-waste-pickers-recylers-join-the-red-dot-campaign/>

Today, Pune’s SWaCH wastepicker cooperative, the Kagad Kach Patra Kashtkari
Panchayat (KKPKP) waste-picker trade union and Pune Municipal Corporation
(PMC) kicked off a massive, city-wide “Red Dot” campaign to improve the way
that residents dispose of their sanitary waste (diapers and sanitary
napkins).  Waste-picker groups and volunteers are using their creativity to
request that people securely wrap their sanitary waste in newspaper and
mark it with a red dot.

SWaCH is rolling their Red Dot message all across town by stencil painting
Red Dot imaging to the sides of SWaCH pushcarts.  Keep your eye out for the
newly adorned carts, as volunteers and children of waste pickers have
already begun painting.  Contact SWaCH if you would like to get involved!

Today the campaign launched a startling but charming one minute Red Dot
video, which is being shared via Whatsapp, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram,
Vimeo, YouTube and the SWaCH website (www.swachcoop.com).  Visit SWaCH’s
Facebook page today to check it out.

Tune in to local radio stations to hear interviews with SWaCH and KKPKP
members, and get a deeper understanding of the many issues surrounding
sanitary waste management.
The Red Dot campaign is producing growing array of creative materials to
engage Punekars from all walks of life.  With Red Dot stickers, posters,
t-shirts, mugs, and even mini paper pushcarts all making their way into the
public, soon you will no longer be able to avoid the subject of sanitary
waste.  “SWaCH manages 20 tonnes of unwrapped sanitary waste every day,
which is a serious health risk for us.  Now it’s time for citizens to take
closer look at this problem and show their support by wrapping and marking
their sanitary waste,” said SWaCH wastepicker Mangal Gaikwad, who is also
featured in the Red Dot video.  Continued here...
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