by Gertrudes Samson

Who else can best convince people to practice solid waste management than people from their own community who practice it themselves and could prove that it is possible? TAO-Pilipinas is currently assisting the St. Hannibal Empowerment Center (SHEC) and its assisted organization in Pasay City called the St. Hannibal Christian Communities (SHaCC) on solid waste management (SWM) by training people from the community to become trainors themselves.

On April 11 to 12, 2008, the community trainors trained by TAO-Pilipinas held a two-day SWM Training Workshop at the SHEC office in E. Cornejo St., Pasay City to orient the second batch of 85 SHaCC members on the importance of solid waste management and how they could implement it in their community.

SHaCC is the second community to have undergone trainor’s training on solid waste management. The first was the Samahan ng Nagkakaisang Maralita ng Navotas (SANAGMANA), a community in a fish pond area in Tanza, Navotas. Like SHaCC, SANAGMANA community members were also trained in solid waste management. A month after the training, TAO-Pilipinas visited the workshop participants to see if they put into practice what they learned. Among those who practiced, potential speakers were selected for trainor’s training. They conducted the succeeding orientations in their community and then later served as resource speakers for the first workshop in SHaCC in Pasay in April 2007.

The successful result of the first workshop inspired SHaCC to seek the assistance of TAO-Pilipinas to help them build their own team of resource speakers, who then led the second SWM workshop in April 2008.
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