Overview

Since its founding in 1997 by a group of local and international development workers, the Community Sanitation and Recycling Organisation (CSARO) has been one of the leading Cambodian non-governmental organization committed to improving the environment and living conditions of the urban poor. We believe in a participatory development approach which empowers and builds up local communities. A special focus of CSARO’s work is on improving the living and working conditions of the thousands of adult and child waste pickers who make their living by sorting through rubbish on the street or at the city’s dumping sites. Background/History: *

Background

Community Sanitation and Recycling Organization (CSARO) is a Cambodian non-governmental organization (NGO), established in February 1997 by a group of development workers committed to improving the environment and living conditions of the urban poor in Cambodia.

Value

Believes integrity, justice, and honesty for performance, which is our main policy. Concepts support a stable society and good environment.

Mission

To encourage and motivate urban poor to improve their capacity and their environmental, social and economic conditions.

Vision

Urban communities where residents and waste pickers work together to transform slum areas into clean, safe and healthy places to live, and where waste pickers work together to improve their social and economic conditions.

Goal

Empowered urban communities and waste pickers, cooperating to improve their environment and creating better family economic conditions for a sustainable future.

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