Action for Rural Women's Development Foundation (ARWDF)
Job Creation for Women and Youth through compressing Recycled Materials for smokeless Charcoal Briquettes
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Margret Nyakato, Executive Director for ARWDF is a 2017 Seedlings of Change mini grant recipent! Scroll down to view photos and learn more about this exciting new project. Margret will provid us with updates and photos as the project prgresses.
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Seedlings of Change provided Margret Nyakato Executive Director for ARWDF $500. USD November 2016 and $300. USD July 2017 Total of $800. USD to fund ARWDF's Briquette Project
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Margret Nyakato, Executive Director
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Margret Nyakato is the Co-founder of the Action for Rural Women’s’ Development Foundation (ARWDF), a female-run, non-profit founded in 2008 to promote equality in education, agriculture, economic empowerment, public health, and environmental conservation in communities throughout the Kasese District in Uganda.
As local populations have grown in the Kasese District, the demand for wood fuel has far exceeded the available supply, resulting in widespread deforestation and high prices. To make matters worse, the region’s high poverty rates have created a situation where it’s easier for many residents to get food than the firewood they need to cook it.
In ARWDF’s newest initiative, Nyakato is planning to compress recycled materials into smokeless charcoal briquettes known as alternative smokeless charcoal for cooking, addressing many of the health and environmental problems in her community such as reducing in-door pollution and respiratory disease which are caused by smoke from wood fuel while cooking. The project specifically targets women, who are the primary audience for fuel consumption and sales, to help them generate income and help their health and the health of their community.
Over the course of the next 12 months, Nyakato will have trained communities how to make these briquettes, and encouraging them to build businesses by selling them, Nyakato Margret says: “This project will help us---eradicate poverty out of Kasese and Uganda at large and help women to be self-dependent in our community.”
As local populations have grown in the Kasese District, the demand for wood fuel has far exceeded the available supply, resulting in widespread deforestation and high prices. To make matters worse, the region’s high poverty rates have created a situation where it’s easier for many residents to get food than the firewood they need to cook it.
In ARWDF’s newest initiative, Nyakato is planning to compress recycled materials into smokeless charcoal briquettes known as alternative smokeless charcoal for cooking, addressing many of the health and environmental problems in her community such as reducing in-door pollution and respiratory disease which are caused by smoke from wood fuel while cooking. The project specifically targets women, who are the primary audience for fuel consumption and sales, to help them generate income and help their health and the health of their community.
Over the course of the next 12 months, Nyakato will have trained communities how to make these briquettes, and encouraging them to build businesses by selling them, Nyakato Margret says: “This project will help us---eradicate poverty out of Kasese and Uganda at large and help women to be self-dependent in our community.”
A memorial donation was made to Seedlings of Change honoring John Varner of Farmville, VA to help fund the ARWDF project, "Creating Jobs for Women and Youth through compressing recycled materials for smokeless Charcoal Briquettes."