Energy Solution In Lake Victoria Area

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Caroline Odera, who comes from the Lake Victoria region, has been dreaming big. And she has obtained the background to put some of her plans into effect. She has received professional training in Business Administration with IT; has had a yearlong fellowship with AKILI DADA, where she worked on promoting energy solutions with the women in the Kisumu District; and has been working as a volunteer program manager with ECOFINDER KENYA

She has had a plan in mind for the Lake Victoria area, putting together eco-solutions, entrepreneurship, and working with the women in the region. Most of her work academically and in volunteer projects have focused on those surrounding regions. Caroline has been working on this program since the end of 2013 and several aspects of her proposal have been implemented.



As I said before, Caroline is dreaming large and does need financial backing to continue to implement this solution. Within Africa women householders have relied on traditional cooking methods, which utilize firewood and kerosene. Firewood is a limited resource and unless you are planting trees and waiting years for them to grow sizable enough to provide the wood, you would eventually run out.

However, the major concern with kerosene and firewood cooking is the smoke, which contains pollutants and their effects on respiratory health and utilizing these fuels calls for open spaces, where carbon monoxide poisoning is mitigated. In many of her solutions, Caroline relies upon micro-enterprises among the women householders, so there are income-producing aspects of her solution.

Among the changes that are still ongoing include changes in the types of fuel that households use. Once dependent on more polluting firewood and kerosene, cooking can be done with sustainable biogas and solar power. Utilizing solar lamps in households have led to entrepreneurial enterprises that provide jobs and give pride in providing sources of clean energy.

This is actually only one small aspect of a program that is creating community change while also allowing some of the already-developed technology to have an impact on land stewardship and addressing the environmental issues that impact the area. Caroline's big dream shows how far-reaching the planning must be to make the type of community change that is so meaningful. You can read more about how Caroline and Ecofinder Kenya are working within the LAKE VICTORIA region by clicking on the higlighted words in this sentence. I think that if someone with Caroline's motivation and abilities existed in other communities, maybe there is a way to slow climate change.

One of the puppet programs used to increase knowledge of environmental solutions.

Thanks to this article from Pollination Project: https://thepollinationproject.org/grants-awarded/caroline-odera-women-green-energy-enterprises-savings-initiative-wees/; and Caroline's bio on this page: http://www.akilidada.org/past-fellows.

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