Salina Khadgi, 32, residing in Lalitpur Municipality, ward no. 11 recently took 5 days tech
workshop from Clean Up Nepal. It was not the first workshop she had taken in her entire life.
Waste management was not a new topic for her. She has already participated in several
trainings and seminars from the ward and has accumulated knowledge on managing waste.
She was trained in how to segregate waste and prepare organic vermicompost. With the
newfound knowledge from various trainings, she practiced Kaushi Kheti on her own utilizing
the compost she prepared. Moreover, she shared her profound knowledge with her relatives,
friends, and the neighborhood. Her advocacy enabled many to start their own businesses and
empowered them economically.
However, the recent workshop organized by Clean Up Nepal remained one of the best
learning platforms for her regarding how to benefit from waste and plastic. For her, the 5-day
tech workshop was different out of many. It was a completely new idea that waste plastic
could be one of the income-generating resources through layers of processes. She learned that
waste can be taken as a profession.
With the advancement of new technology, people are reusing waste materials and plastics.
They sell these products in the markets and make money out of them. Salina got innovative
ideas and experienced new learnings through the tech workshop. These days she has built up
her confidence. In the beginning, she thought that the workshop was simple and similar to
many others as she participated in the earlier days. Nonetheless, this workshop has taught her
how and with whom to collaborate in the local level. Furthermore, the teach workshop
enhanced her skills in program designing, slide preparation, project schedules, and presenting
in the mass. Proposal writing and dealing with different projects are additional learnings she
learned from the program. She is confident enough to conduct such programs shortly alone.
To add more to the list, she learned to collect data from the field, aggregate them in an Excel
Sheet, and analyse them through QuilBot software.
Salina expects such programs from local governments, NGOs, and INGOs at the grassroots
level. Though she has not thought of entrepreneurship at the moment, her self-motivation is
the internal drive to achieve, produce, develop, and keep moving forward.