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Slum women using porridge to make briquettes

For the best experience, please enable JavaScript in your browser settings. When a group of women started using porridge to make briquettes for sale in Kisumu’s ...
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Briquette making: How to make cash from cow dung

Mrs Kalpana Karia, the briquette projects coordinator at the Briquettes Processing Factory in Dunga, Kisumu County. Inset: The ready briquettes. [Collins Oduor, Standard] Everybody is so busy on this ...
The Nation Newspaper

Making a living from charcoal briquettes

A Cross River State-based innovator, Mr Emmanuel Ntiti, is empowering Nigerians to make briquettes out of charcoal dust, solve fuel problem, reduce poverty, unemployment and tackle poor waste ...
UNHCR

Innovation: Briquette-making project helps protect women in Ugandan camp

NAKIVALE, Uganda, Aug 9 (UNHCR) - Cooking with a traditional three-stone stove in south-west Uganda's sprawling Nakivale refugee settlement used to be an exhausting daily exercise for 39-year-old ...
Oxfam America

Turning food waste into fuel

Villagers in Indonesia learn how to transform coconuts into sustainable products and sources of renewable energy.
Mongabay

In the rice-rich Mekong region, will husk briquettes take hold?

Briquettes made from rice husks or other plant waste present a cleaner alternative to wood and charcoal in a region that collectively produces nearly 100 million tons of rice per year. In Myanmar, ...