This is an implant that is efficient in reducing the amount of firewood fuel used in cooking and also the smoke which has serious health implications of the women who cook in the kitchen. This targets women in rural areas who use traditional cookstoves and the urban poor who use firewood as fuel for their traditional stoves are the primary beneficiaries of this implant. The empress is very efficient and simple implant used for traditional rounded clay stoves which uses firewood … Read more
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Coaching Supporting someone to become more effective in their own unique way
Coaching can support people to find their own way forward, own their own solutions and do the things that they say they intend to do … Read more
Making a Sofa Stool from Used Plastic Bottles
What you need: About 40 used bottles of same height and size (probably 1.5litres each). Sand can be added in a few bottles the give it some weight, duct tape, two circular plywood of desired circumference, enough sit foam to go around and on the bottles, and a material with any preferable design all depending on your preference. What to do: Join the bottles adjacently in your desired circular size and hold them together with the duct tape. Place the two circular boards on both ends of … Read more
Making Table Mats out of Plastic Bottle Covers
A tablemat made of plastic bottle covers safes the soil from pollution. Littering in any home is reduced and up cycling the plastic covers is fare better than burring them and safes the user the cost of buying more plastic mats that would be more waste in the near future. What you need: plastic bottle covers, plastic glue Making your table mat: they could be very beautiful Just get creative step1: glue the plastic covers in any desired design and color pattern adjacently and let it … Read more
Flavoured Water Reduce waste and save the planet by making your own flavoured water
Getting rid of soda, juice, and bottled water by taking the time to learn how to make easy, low-cost, nutritious and refreshing flavoured water; by using any fresh fruit (Bananas excluded). Water is so important because our bodies constitute about 70% of it. Water plays a key role in transporting nutrients and oxygen to every cell in our bodies and it keeps every cell hydrated in order to keep our bodies fit. This process particularly affects the skin, as skin is the largest organ, thus when you … Read more
Palm Kernel Oil Alternatives which make use of local resources and save income
An appropriate counter measure which can greatly serve as an alternative to most of these cosmetics such as body lotion is Palm Kernel oil. It is the oil extracted from the nut of the palm plant and is yellow-white in colour. One of the good qualities of palm kernel oil is that because this oil solidifies at room temperature, it can be used to substitute numerous body lotions and can equally serve as cooking oil. In many rural communities of Cameroon (Bafut), it was customary in the past for … Read more
Calabash Storage Culture
To ensure that food security is maintained and food sovereignty is ensured, it is necessary for communities and local farmers to improve their seed preserving methods. One such way is by making use of a long standing tradition in the Bafut community of Cameroon, where farmers use a Calabash to store seeds for future planting seasons. This method has proven very efficient, as historical records show that seeds preserved in calabashes could easily be stored for many years and were safe from … Read more
Bottle Gardening
Take a bottle, cut horizontally and fill it with compost. Nurse vegetable seeds and place the bottle on roof tops, indoor, window frames, walls, etc. … Read more
