The Unilever Bangladesh Limited has taken an emergency initiative to provide essential support to more than 2,100 waste workers from 41 wards in Chattogram to mitigate their financial instability and improve livelihood condition, said a press release on Sunday.
The support gesture comes as a prompt response to an ongoing unrest that made waste workers unable to attend their duties, causing unexpected economic challenges.
To implement this timely initiative, the UBL has extended financial aid through its development partner, Young Power in Social Action, who has been executing the aid in Chattogram.
The UBL has been running the country鈥檚 largest municipal-backed plastic waste initiative since 2022.
Currently, 2,100 waste workers are part of the UBL鈥檚 plastic waste collection initiatives and their livelihood enhancement is an important component of the project in Chattogram.
The company quicky assessed the situation on ground and started disbursing financial aid to the 2,100 waste workers from August 1.
Other than the additional aid, the project is continuing to collect plastic waste in limited scale to sustain the income of the waste worker in such difficult time.