The Unforgotten Fund (UNFF), founded in 2007, provides clean food and water, shelter, schooling and a future for child wastepickers living in, or near, trash-dumps. We are currently working at the dumpsites in Lusaka (Zambia), Freetown (Sierra Leone), and Pune (India).
We provide aid for trash-dump children in the form of:
- Hunger relief: We provide meals for children that were looking through trash for food to eat.
- Education: We enroll children in primary school, and free them of the burden of needing to earn money by selling items found in the trash. We provide extra tutoring in bridge programs.
- Water: We provide and develop clean sources of drinking water.
- Independence: We provide microloans and skills training to the mothers of trash-dump children to start businesses, so that the families do not become dependent on our aid.