
Central America Support Committee
One of Canada’s longest running solidarity groups
Friday, February 28, 2025
UNICATA, the University for and with Waste Pickers, is the result of a decades’ long partnership between waste picker cooperatives, researchers from the University of Victoria and researchers from Brazil. This project aims to address the severe lack of education for millions of individuals who fulfill an important role in our cities: diverting waste. In addition, UNICATA aims to empower waste pickers and increasingly integrate them into urban planning and promote circularity in our cities.
Presenter, Dr Carolina Carvalho is an environmental and urban planner, and participatory mapping specialist. She is currently a postdoctoral and sessional lecturer at the CBRL, University of Victoria (UVic), Canada. She is also a researcher at the University of São Paulo, Brazil. Carolina is founder of Comunidades Vivas – Mapeamento Participativo, a knowledge hub that aims to boost social engagement through participatory mapping in the city planning.
Everyone is welcome! Refreshments including Fair Trade Nicaraguan coffee. Donations gratefully accepted.
Sponsored by Central America Support Committee (CASC)
Paul Phillips Hall at Fernwood Community and Arts Association1923 Fernwood Road
Doors open at 7:00 PM: 7:30 PM presentation.
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