Presented at: GSEF2016 Montreal

Organisation: Social Micro enterprise /Serdo Hand-Made Shoe Manufacturing (Private or hybrid enterprise)

Date: September 8, 2016

Presenter: Mr. Belachew Tola (Founder and DIrector)

Contacts: belachew.tola@gmail.com

Summary: 

The initiative brings together a social micro enterprise, an environmental NGO and the local government to produce protective materials from recycled materials (scraps of leather, textile and tire factories) with minimum automation as an occupational safety and health scheme for marginalised waste pre-collectors in the city of Addis Ababa. The initiative has trained 30 unemployed and disabled youth in the trade to ensure bulk production of initially 750 pieces of gloves, overalls and protective shoes with a prospective market of supplying 5000 waste pre-collectors in the city. The initiative was also set up for the youth to partly own shares in the enterprise.