STATEWIDE WASTE AND ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION FOUNDATION
TRAINING + EDUCATION + ADVOCACY
SWEEP Foundation works to promote the sustainable development goals through through advocacy, training and monitoring on projects and initiatives that promote and improve access to social and economic opportunities for people especially women/youth, while driving community engagement in environment and waste management using innovative Behaviour Change (BC) methodology.
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About Sweep Foundation
ADVOCACY
Through town hall meetings, conferences, workshops, sporting activities are organized at intervals to discuss challenges to sustainable waste management regime.
TRAININGS
Conducted periodically to educate and up-date the capacity of stakeholders and members of the general public by enhancing them with new tactics and additional skills in waste prevention.
MONITORING
Activities are routinely carried out across our different communities to ensure widespread observance of sustainable sanitation standards.
SANITATION
Community clean-up outreaches are carried out at intervals with the aim of promoting clean, green and sustainable communities while sensitising the communities .
Our Core Programs
Waste Management Training
Environmental Sanitation
Waste-to-Energy
Waste-to-Wealth
Community Advocacy
Recycling
Our Future and Now
SWEEP Foundation is a social enterprise committed to addressing environmental and waste management issues, and taking action to improve the environment through waste and environmental education programs. SWEEP helps communities develop skills to make informed and responsible decisions affecting their immediate environment.
The overall goal of the foundation is to promote sustainable environment and waste reduction, prevention and management education, waste to wealth training activities aimed at providing health and social benefits and form a greater sense of empowerment that will expand into everyday life.
Enhancing environmental sustainability by harnessing and nurturing individual and corporate citizens desire to acquire waste management skills and entrepreneurial education in the areas of Waste Management, Recycling, Waste-to-Energy, Waste-to-Wealth, Community Advocacy, and Environmental Sanitation.
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Sweep Featured Initiatives
THE LAGOS WASTE FORUM
The Lagos Waste Forum is a High Level Citizens Forum on Waste Reduction, an initiative of SWEEP Foundation in partnership with Coca-Cola Company and LAWMA to co-create strategies to drive a Circular Economy in Nigeria. Aptly tagged the “Future of Waste Forum” it has drawn the widest variety of sustainability professionals. The forum is focused on the active participation of the community individually and collectively in waste reduction as a solution in the fight against municipal wastes disposal and management in Lagos State.
WASTE IN THE CITY
The “Waste In The City” is a statewide initiative driving community by community grassroots involvement in environmental sanitation, advocacy by promoting support for the environmental sustainability. Our goal is to promote widespread environmental and waste management education, and is a direct response to the growing challenges of plastic and other domestic waste constituting environmental nuisance to public spaces especially in Lagos state.
THE GREEN CAMPUS PROJECT
“The Green Campus Project” is a university community recyclable waste reduction project that will establish sustainable recyclable drop-off points (recycle Banks) and deployment of mobile recyclable collection receptacles across six (6) selected University campuses while, at the same time, providing sustainable livelihood opportunities for students, women and youth resident around target campus communities.
EKO BEACH RACE
Tagged a race against ocean plastic pollution, Eko Beach Race is a sustainable initiative harnessing the power of sport tourism to address ocean plastic pollution. Eko Beach Race is designed to drive youth communities involvement in environmental awareness and sanitation, promote environmental sustainability, sport tourism and support for government’s sport, tourism and waste management policy.
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Unlocking Nigeria’s Green Potential
Lagos Waste Forum 5.0: Unlocking Nigeria's Green Potential The fifth edition of the Lagos Waste Forum is scheduled to take place from December 2 to 3, 2024, at Radisson Blu, Ikeja. This year's theme, "Unlocking Nigeria's Green Potential: Waste Reduction, Recycling and...
Lagos Waste Forum Welcomes UNIDO & EU as Sponsors
LAGOS WASTE FORUM 2024 WELCOMES UNITED NATIONS INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT ORGANISATION (UNIDO) AND EUROPEAN UNION (EU) AS NEW SPONSORS Lagos, Nigeria – The Lagos Waste Forum, a premier platform for promoting sustainable waste management practices in Nigeria, is pleased to...
LAGOS WASTE FORUM 5.0
LAGOS WASTE FORUM 5.0 ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA'S MEGACITY. Lagos Waste Forum 5.0 Set to Host November 2024. Amb. Obuesi Phillips, President of the Lagos Waste Forum, is pleased to announce the commencement of activities leading up to the 5th...
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6 & 7
Nov
LAGOS WASTE FORUM 5.0
Lagos Waste Forum 5.0 ACCELERATING SUSTAINABLE WASTE MANAGEMENT IN AFRICA’S MEGACITY.
Amb. Obuesi Phillips, President of the Lagos Waste Forum, is pleased to announce the commencement of activities leading up to the 5th edition of the Lagos Waste Forum, scheduled to take place in November 2024. More Details
4 & 5
Dec
MAKUTANO
The Statewide Waste and Environmental Education Foundation (SWEEP Foundation) and the Pan African Waste Organisation (PAWO) is collaborating with stakeholders to co-create a conference with a mission to bring people together to share knowledge, inspire action, and drive progress towards a more sustainable and circular future for Africa. More Details
30
Jan
SWEEP Foundation to unveil “Time to Recycle” in Atlanta Georgia
Get Ready Atlanta as “Time to Recycle” is an it-begins-with-you behavioural change campaign of SWEEP Foundation driving citizens participation in environmental sustainability through waste recycling. More Details
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Improving communities and their environment by involving citizens in the evacuation of wastes from markets, motor parks, Road sides, clearing of blocked drainages e.t.c, planting of tress around public spaces, house to house advocacy campaign.
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By Surulere LGA Secretariat
Surulere, Lagos.
statewidewasteprogram@gmail.com
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