Impact Programs Using wastes as a resource Community Empowerment We support communities to collect and transform wastes into new products Impact Stories Transforming wastes, enabling livelihoods ecobarter women ecobarter empowerment
The Ecobarter Foundation

We empower communities, using waste as a resource.

120+ million Nigerians live in poverty without access to basic needs such as clean cooking energy, yet over 60 million tons of solid wastes, which can easily be converted into new products are trashed annually

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Our Programs

We train, establish and connect communities to market

We design programs that improve environmental, social and economic empowerment in under-served communities like rural communities, informal urban settlement, sub and peri-urban communities.

  • We transform plastic bags into fabrics
  • We transform food wastes into composts & biogas
  • We bridge learning with pre-owned books
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Our Innovative Model

We create market clusters!

We go beyond training to group trainees into clusters for support and accountability. We then provide commercial workspace and connect these clusters to market for sustainable earning

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600 +
Women trained
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5
clusters created
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10k +
USD Income created
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Together Together we can reach millions with impact

We work with other organizations of different sizes to design programs that promote environmental resilience and shared prosperity in local communities

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    Our theory of change is simple

    If we provide local community women with training and a platform to capture value from wastes, then they will become economically empowered, leading to improved gender equality, more waste segregation from source and improved climate resilience

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    Beyond designing and implementing programs to heal our planet and prosper our people, we document our learnings so more people can lead the change we want to see