Setting an example to keep environment clean, about 700 women here collect waste of all kinds from door-to-door for disposal.

Working for ‘Kudumbasree’, a project launched by the City Corporation in March 2004 under the Centre’s Development of Women and Children in Urban Areas Scheme, these women collect wastes daily from door-to-door for a meagre sum Re one.

Disregarding health hazards they face due to direct contact with stinking garbage, they carry on their job from six a.m. in the morning till the dirt from the last house earmarked for them is collected.

But in spite of the noble work they do, the women rue, they are often ill-treated by the people.