Sanyang prefers briquettes to firewood

As they are committed to safe their forest

 The community of Sanyang has committed themselves in replacing the firewood and charcoal to fuel briquette from groundnutshells; introduced by GreenTech Vision, a Community Base Organisation for environmental protection, based in Kololi.

The people of the Sanyang applauded GreenTech Vision for coming with the stove and briquettes in protecting their environment and the forest,” they made this commitment during a daylong sensitization and demonstration program organised by CBO recently in Sanyang.

The project funded by the UNDP Global Environmental Facility (GEF) -Small Grants Programme (SGP), is aimed at tackling environmental challenges like deforestation, loss of biodiversity and climate change and improving livelihoods.

‘Saving forest is extremely important to mitigate climate change’

“Using groundnutshell briquettes in fuel efficient stoves for your daily cooking, instead of fuelwood in an inefficient fire place, you are saving the forest and saving the forest is extremely important to mitigate climate change and also for environmental sanitation and soil retention,” says Lenja Guenther, Chairperson, GreenTech Vision.

She observed that Gambia has threatening environmental challenges ranging from soil degradation to desertification and loss of biodiversity.

“So if we can protect our forest with less use of firewood and charcoal then we can have a generally healthier environment,” she stated during a daylong training of coregroup members in Tanji on Sales and Micro-credit opportunities for the introduced fuel briquettes and fuel efficient stoves.   

             

Funded by the UNDP Global Environmental Facility (GEF) -Small Grants Programme (SGP), the project, which is implemented by the charity GreenTechVision, is aimed at tackling environmental challenges like deforestation, loss of biodiversity and climate change and improving livelihoods.

Green Tech Vision Trains Sanyang village Welder men on cooking stoves production

(Pic Source: observer.gm} Participants

1 Green Tech Vision, with funding under the UNDP Global Environmental Facility (GEF) -Small Grants Programme (SGP) project, organized training for welder men in Sanyang village in Kombo North, West Coast Region recently on cooking stoves production. 

With the UNDP GEF-SGP supported project, Green Tech Vision aims to tackle environmental challenges and improve livelihoods in the local communities of West Coast Region; Green Tech Vision is the only Gambian innovative company that produce briquette and make it affordable to Gambians at a low price.

The training aimed to enable welders in the villages of Tanji, Sanyang and Gunjur to be able to reproduce the cooking stove in large quantities so that local communities can have easy access to the product which in turn will save our forest, as less firewood will be used. 

Traditional communicators, drama groups trained on use of briquettes, fuel efficient stoves

Participants

As part of their strive to protecting the environment and improving the livelihoods of the people, Green Tech Vision trained traditional communicators and drama groups in Gunjur on fuel briquettes and fuel efficient stoves.
 

The January 14 training was aimed at exposing the participants to the importance of fuel briquettes and fuel efficient stoves to the protection of the environment and its income-saving capability to families.

The training is funded by UNDP-GEF Small Grants Programme and participants are expected to disseminate the knowledge they have to the villagers through their singings and dramas. The project has signed an MoU with the targeted communities- Gunjur, Sanyang and Tanji village.

The introduced fuel briquettes, fuel efficient stoves and alternative fish smoking technologies to fishing villages in The Gambia is aimed at tackling environmental challenges and improving livelihoods.