The King’s Trust is committed to connecting youth to green jobs, so let’s meet Lydia from Ghana, who channeled her concern about plastic waste clogging up local waterways into a career.

In Lydia’s mind, the litter was not only unsightly but also dangerous, creating breeding grounds for malaria-carrying mosquitoes. She decided to jump into action, leveraging skills she learned in The Trust’s Get Into program, which provides sector-specific knowledge and on-the-job experience.

So, she thought: Why not convert plastic waste into economic opportunity? Knowing that quarry workers in her community struggled to pay for life and disability insurance, she worked on a project during her job placement that would allow these workers to “buy” affordable insurance by collecting and recycling plastic bottles.

Read her full story here: https://lnkd.in/egQWZXxQ.

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