“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.
