{"title":"Helping Eco Warriors Find Their Own Voices","authors":"R. Caceres, John Vincent Gastanes, Shellemai Roa","doi":"10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.53","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"\n Worldwide, informal waste collectors (IWCs) experience discrimination, stigma, and sometimes harassment (Bulla et al., 2021). They rely on their own social networks to ply their “trade” and converse well with people with whom they have personal or business relations. Beyond this small network, IWCs do not usually need to talk to other people. Philippine-based social enterprise Project Zacchaeus (PZC) aimed to transform 60 IWCs into “Eco Warriors” in a program equipping IWCs with a variety of skills. The goal was to empower these IWCs to lead their families and communities and serve as role models to adjacent barangays. The authors explore the contrast between the mostly timid informal waste pickers and the grantee’s vision for them as leaders and effective communicators for environmental awareness. We describe the challenges in the ambitious undertaking, Caceres’s training contributions, and the gradual transformation of shy informal waste pickers into more confident, empowered Eco Warriors.","PeriodicalId":87338,"journal":{"name":"Practicing anthropology","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Practicing anthropology","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.17730/0888-4552.45.2.53","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Worldwide, informal waste collectors (IWCs) experience discrimination, stigma, and sometimes harassment (Bulla et al., 2021). They rely on their own social networks to ply their “trade” and converse well with people with whom they have personal or business relations. Beyond this small network, IWCs do not usually need to talk to other people. Philippine-based social enterprise Project Zacchaeus (PZC) aimed to transform 60 IWCs into “Eco Warriors” in a program equipping IWCs with a variety of skills. The goal was to empower these IWCs to lead their families and communities and serve as role models to adjacent barangays. The authors explore the contrast between the mostly timid informal waste pickers and the grantee’s vision for them as leaders and effective communicators for environmental awareness. We describe the challenges in the ambitious undertaking, Caceres’s training contributions, and the gradual transformation of shy informal waste pickers into more confident, empowered Eco Warriors.
在世界范围内,非正式废物收集者(iwc)受到歧视、羞辱,有时还会受到骚扰(Bulla et al., 2021)。他们依靠自己的社交网络进行“交易”,并与与他们有私人或商业关系的人进行良好的交谈。在这个小圈子之外,iwc通常不需要与其他人交谈。菲律宾社会企业Zacchaeus项目(PZC)旨在通过一项为iwc成员提供各种技能的计划,将60名iwc成员转变为“生态战士”。目标是赋予这些iwc领导家庭和社区的能力,并为邻近的村庄树立榜样。两位作者探讨了大多数胆小的非正式拾荒者与受助人对他们作为环境意识的领导者和有效传播者的愿景之间的对比。我们描述了这项雄心勃勃的事业所面临的挑战,卡塞雷斯的培训贡献,以及害羞的非正式拾荒者逐渐转变为更自信、更有能力的生态战士。