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Jean Kim Chaix

Kim Chaix is the Founding Director of The Charcoal Project and is also Director of Strategic Impact for Rainforest Foundation USA.

Tanzanian Women

Tanzania: Championing Energy Solutions for Women

Bagamoyo’s (Tanzania) rapid urbanization and population growth have made it harder for workers like Msilo to keep their businesses afloat and feed their families. Alongside rising electricity costs, the wood most people use for their household and business energy needs is becoming scarcer.

Thirteen women and eight men were instructed on how to produce fuel alternatives to charcoal, using agriculture and crop residues. These residues include rice and cashew husks, wood shavings, coconut husks and shells – all of which can be fashioned into briquettes, whose growing use addresses the shortage of charcoal and other wood-based fuels.

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NEWS: ‘Clean cookstoves’ draw support, but they may not improve indoor air quality

In March, researchers from India and California published a study showing that certain clean cookstove models occasionally release a larger volume of certain pollutants than the traditional stoves they’re intended to replace.

Three American researchers released a randomized, controlled study Monday that is even more damaging to the clean cookstove movement.

 

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Betty Ikalany

Ugandan entrepreneur uses briquettes to address gender and development issues

Betty Ikalany is eager to include women in her budding briquette-making enterprise. She believes the income-generating potential offered by briquette-making will empower women by making them more economically independent.

She specifically targets women living with HIV/AIDS and girls dropping out of school due to pregnancy because these two groups usually suffer greatly from stigma and discrimination in the community, which impedes their ability to provide a living for themselves.

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