Goethe-Zentrum Hyderabad & EkoGalaxy are jointly organising an event titled: The Stories Within - Waste, Workers, & the City. The events include: panel discussion, exhibition, and movie screening - that give us a glimpse into the life and work of waste workers in Pune.
The Stories Within is an anthology of 20 waste picker voices, through the lens of 20 citizens representing different walks of life.The Stories Within aims to bring forward 20 stories of struggle, change, belief, hope, resilience and willingness to not only dream the impossible but make it a reality. The photos highlight the different stories of the pickers as well as innovative waste management and handling models and the daring experiments conducted by waste pickers. The discussion with Pune’s SWaCH Cooperative, will shed light on the unimaginable hard work, immense contribution and unparalleled determination of waste pickers.
A waste picker representative would share challenging yet inspiring anecdotes which would help to gain deeper understanding of the valuable efforts that often remain unacknowledged. The films depict the ethnographic history of the waste picker movement in Pune, told through individual stories of empowerment, transformation and resilience as well as tells the Story of SWaCH which is India’s largest wholly-owned waste picker cooperative.