THE United States Agency for International Development (USAid) awarded its "first" business expansion grant to a woman waste collector to help her start her own door-to-door waste collection livelihood.

The USAid provided about P50,000 or $888 worth of waste collection equipment to Riza Santoyo, 34, from Quezon City, the US Embassy in the Philippines said on Tuesday.

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