Ugandan women turn agricultural waste into biofuel to save trees

STORY: Ugandan women turn agricultural waste into biofuel to save trees SHOOTING TIME: May 30, 2024 DATELINE: June 5, 2024 LENGTH: 0:03:40 LOCATION: Kampala CATEGORY: SOCIETY SHOTLIST: 1. various of the sanctuary of Set Her Free 2. various of mixing raw materials for making briquettes 3. SOUNDBITE 1 (English): ROBERT AGABA, Program officer of Set Her Free 4. various of women making briquettes 5. SOUNDBITE 2 (Luganda): SHEEBA KWAGALA, Briquette maker 6. various of restaurant cooking using the biofuel briquettes 7. SOUNDBITE 3 (English): MICHAEL KALYESUBULA, Chef 8. various of briquettes 9. SOUNDBITE 4 (English): ROBERT AGABA, Program officer of Set Her Free 10. various of women at Set Her Free STORYLINE: Every morning, Sheeba Kwagala and her colleague head to a sanctuary in the Ugandan capital of Kampala to mash agricultural waste, mainly banana peels and crop residues, with molasses and clay to make briquettes. Briquettes, a type of renewable energy source and a form of solid biofuel, are said to be more

UGANDA-KAMPALA-BIOFUEL-BRIQUETTES MAKERS

UGANDA-KAMPALA-BIOFUEL-BRIQUETTES MAKERS

(240605) -- KAMPALA, June 5, 2024 Photo by Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM) -- Sheeba Kwagala (L) and her colleague Shadia Abasa work on a pile of composite to make briquettes at a sanctuary in Kampala, Uganda, May 30, 2024. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Ugandan women turn agricultural waste into biofuel to save trees" (Photo by Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

UGANDA-KAMPALA-BIOFUEL-BRIQUETTES MAKERS

UGANDA-KAMPALA-BIOFUEL-BRIQUETTES MAKERS

(240605) -- KAMPALA, June 5, 2024 (Xinhua) -- Sheeba Kwagala (L) and her colleague Shadia Abasa work on a pile of composite to make briquettes at a sanctuary in Kampala, Uganda, May 30, 2024. TO GO WITH "Roundup: Ugandan women turn agricultural waste into biofuel to save trees" (Photo by Nicholas Kajoba/Xinhua)

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(220813) -- KAMPALA, Aug. 13, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Betty Kwagala, a patient at the Uganda-China Friendship Hospital, speaks in an interview with Xinhua in Kampala, Uganda, Aug. 10, 2022. TO GO WITH "Feature: Chinese support boosts Uganda's health care services" (Xinhua/Zhang Gaiping)