The Ecolo-Cultural Solution

The solution

The ECO-CULTURAL solution offers innovative, modern, physical cultural tools, adapted and adaptable to different populations in order to change behaviors in a sustainable way.
It is interested in local culture and tradition using an ideal community approach so that the solution fits perfectly without imposing.
Thanks to a set of tools, we ensure that ecological gestures are physically and sustainably integrated into joy, good humor and sharing.

We offer a solution to communities that are otherwise left to their own devices with waste managment. Rather than throwing waste in nature, burying it or burning it, our association disposes trash cans in the streets, teaches sorting and collects waste to redistribute and transform it.

The ECO-CULTURAL solution aims to reduce marine pollution and fight against global warming by raising awareness, collecting waste in coastal villages (near and into mangroves and beaches), sorting and recycling it.

In 2022-2023 it was rewarded by being selected among the 15 finalists of Strand 3: promoting behavior change, of the Afri-Plastics Challenge organized by the Canadian Government in partnership with Challenge Works (1 100 applications throughout Sub-Saharian Africa).

Here is our solution presented in the form of circular diagram with at the heart of the solution: Behaviour change

The solution is in a circular system because it guarantees the circular economy, it readjusts its tools and awareness according to the evolution of the solution and the capacity of the sorting center and the staff.

For lasting change, the creation of a effective waste management system that frames in parallel, is essential. It is obtained through the cultural tools created and the community actions carried out.

Our cultural and community tools

our test phase in CAP SKIRRING

our calendar

Phase 1

Research and development of the solution.

April 2020 – Sept 2022

Phase 2

Testing the solution in Cap Skirring, a coastal village in Senegal.

Oct 2022 – March 2023

Phase 3

Implementation of the solution at Cap Skirring.

Expansion to the commune of Diembéring.

Jan 2024 – Jan 2027

Phase 4

Duplication of the Ecolo-Cultural Solution at a national and/or international scale.

Starting from 2025

Our goals

BEHAVIOR CHANGE

Put waste in trash cans, sorting it, giving it to collectors, taking care of our living environment and reducing plastic consumption.

PROTECT THE ENVIRONMENT / fight Climate change

Raising awareness and education about the environment, practicing ecological gestures, reducing atmospheric, land and marine pollution, improving sanitary conditions, recycling waste, manufacturing alternatives to plastic, promoting the circular economy and agroecology

CReate an engaged ECOLOGICAL generation

Bringing together motivated and committed young people to act for the environment and local development and supporting them in implementing initiatives.