Mumbai Inevitably one cycles back what what hears that is new back to what one knows that is old from your own experience. The more I kept looking at the poster for the bands from Norway and the United Kingdom playing for people in Dharavi in honor of ACORN’s work with recyclers there, I assumed …
Author: wade
Recycling Partnerships with Mumbai Schools
Mumbai We were up and out early into the Monday morning traffic where Vinod had been invited to speak about about the environmental impact of recycling by our waste pickers in Dharavi to a class at the B. M. Ruia Girls’ College, a junior college of sorts with 1500 students served in two shifts by …
Opening of ACORN Dharavi Office and Recycling Center
Mumbai The outside had a new coat of brown paint on the corrugated sheet metal, which served as walls against the wooden beams and framing open to the sky and elements in many places. A local community “electrician” was still working on lights for the sorting room. From the roadway the new ACORN Dharavi Office …