Jennifer is proud that selling charcoal briquettes has enabled her to send her daughter to private school. She has also bought two sheep.

Jennifer is a widow from D.R.Congo. She has two children and provides foster care to two others who are orphans. They live in Nakivale one of the largest refugee settlements in Uganda, with other refugees from their country, Burundi, Somalia and Rwanda.

Jennifer makes a living selling briquettes that are made from recycled household waste. She belongs to a group of female and male refugees who, in partnership with a Ugandan entrepreneur, recycle organic household waste to produce the briquettes.

Refugees collect banana peelings, and peanut and coffee husks, raw materials that are plentiful in Nakivale. They are dried and crushed to make the briquettes, which are sold in the refugee community along with energy-saving stoves.

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Jennifer makes a living selling briquettes that are made from recycled household waste. [UNHCR / T. Ongaro]

She belongs to a group of female and male refugees who reycle organic household waste to produce the briquettes. [UNHCR / T. Ongaro]

The charcoal briquettes are sold in the refugee community along with energy-saving stoves. [UNHCR / T. Ongaro]

Banana peelings, peanut and coffee husks are used as raw materials. [UNHCR / T. Ongaro]

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