By Javier Flores | Director, External Affairs and Developmet
ALBINA RUIZ INVITED AS PANELIST IN 2007 CLINTON GLOBAL INITIATIVE
Ciudad Saludable, a hybrid nonprofit organization providing waste management solutions in Peru and Latin America, announced that Albina Ruiz has been selected as a global partner in the Clinton Global Initiative (CGI). CGI is a non-partisan catalyst for action, founded by US ex president Bill Clinton, that brings together a community of global leaders to devise and implement innovative solutions to global problems. As panelist, Ms. Ruiz addressed the CGI 2007 Annual Meeting that took place September 26-28, in New York.
“We are very excited to invite Ms Ruiz to be featured in the session ‘Jobs, Jobs, Jobs – From Poverty Alleviation to Wealth Creation’”, said David Auerbach, a representative of CGI. Ms. Ruiz focused on job creation among poor families making a living off recycling activities in communities of Peru and Latin America. Ciudad Saludable is a not-for-Profit organization that has implemented sustainable waste management projects in over 50 cities of Peru and several Latin American countries. Working with Peru’s governmental environmental agency, Health Ministry and various local organizations, the organization catalyzed small enterprises from various households to recycle and eliminate waste production.
“Where most people see a problem in solid waste, we see a great opportunity” said Ms. Ruiz at the end of her participation at the CGI event.
Ciudad Saludable made a commitment during the event—a three-year project “social and economic inclusion of 3,000 waste scavengers in Latin America". This project will formalize people who are making a living off waste in Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador and four Peruvian regions (Callao, Lima South, San Martin and Ucayali). For Ciudad Saludable’s commitment, former US president Bill Clinton presented a certificate to Albina Ruiz
After more than 15 years of promoting her concept while working as a consultant to cities, industrial firms and various international development projects, she founded Ciudad Saludable (Healthy City) in 2002. Working in partnership with municipalities, CS has organized over 1500 waste scavengers, reaching poor urban and rural communities with a total population of 4 million people.
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By Albina Ruiz | Worthy employment for families working on recyclin
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