By Kulihoshi M | Provincial Coordinator of North Kivu
Charcoal Project
For the last three months, the Charcoal Project has not been doing well because Internally Displaced Persons took all what we had produced and this affected our activities, and unfortunately we did not have more funding.
The charcoal we produce is an alternative to the cooking problem in Goma, Doctors Without Borders are making alarm every day that 60% of IDP women abused sexually are victims where they are collecting firewood in order to cook food.
For this project to continue we need funds which will help us to hire a place which is in fence, buy tents in which we can keep them, and have a small car which can transport them to various destinations where people can buy them.
We still hope that despite the challenges, there also opportunities which we can capitalize in order to revive this project and save lives of so many women who are at risk. Once women have this first of all good quality charcoal, cheap and which take long and use in small quantity, they will not go to risky places to look for firewood.
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