The UN-Habitat Scroll of Honour award was launched in 1989 and is one of the most prestigious human settlements award in the world. It aims to acknowledge initiatives which have made outstanding contributions in the field of human settlements, provision of housing, highlighting the plight of people living in poverty or who have been displaced, developing and improving human settlements and the quality of urban life to leave no one behind echoing the Sustainable Development Goals 2030 with emphasis on Goal 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities.
Since building the first SINA in 2014, we have been upcycling plastic bottles to build our learning spaces and Upcycle Africa was started as one of SINA’s social enterprises to train other communities on this technologies and build houses on a larger scale.
We are excited extremely excited to see Upcycle Africa awarded with the UN Habitat Scroll of Honour Award 2020.
To find out more, visit: https://unhabitat.org/2020-un-habitat-scroll-of-honour-award-winners-announced-0