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The Advocacy Project helps marginalized communities to tell their story, claim their rights and produce social change. We recruit graduate students to volunteer as Peace Fellows with partners.

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"I look at myself as having the potential to be as strong and caring as the amazing women I met in Kenya."

Kate Cummings (Tufts University) volunteered in 2009 as a Peace Fellow for Vital Voices in Africa.

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Help Wastepickers in Delhi to Combat Climate Change

AP’s partner in Delhi, the Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, is helping wastepickers to organize, recycle and claim their rights - and in the process offset emissions of carbon that are produced by landfills and garbage.

In 2009, with the help of two Peace Fellows, AP and Chintan will help a wastepicker community to take their message of social justice and community-based recycling to the international community, and in doing so  influence new mechanisms to combat climate change.

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photo credit: Mackenzie Berg


Wastepickers in India live off recycling garbage from landfills (left). They make little money and live in terrible conditions. Most of their children are unable to attend school.


 
















Delhi generates over 6,000 tons of garbage a day. Wastepickers provide a valuable service to the city, by sorting the trash and extracting materials that can be recycled.  They handle rougly 20 percent of Delhi's trash.













Learn more about the Chintan's work with wastepickers
  • Chintan's Partner Page
  • In Summer 2008, AP sent two Peace Fellows to work in Delhi with Chintan and document the lives of the wastepickers.  For more information, read Paul's and Mackenzie's blogs.

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