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The Environmental Enterprise Development Initiative
spread to the Arusha region in early 2006, when the Ngarenaro Youth Self Help Group and Women's Economic Empowerment Movement met with EEDI cluster members in
Dar es Salaam at the EEDI Capacity Building Workshop.
The workshop sparked ideas, planning, and catalyzed
a forward momentum leading to the first SavePower savings and credit
group training, held in Arusha at the end of August, and culminating
with the formation of two new youth savings and credit groups. Thereafter they have begun a retail briquetting enterprise, selling fuel briquettes, an environmentally sound alternative to charcoal, to local households that previously did not have access to this technology. Most recently EEDI members were trained in biomass fuel briquetting by producers from Lushoto through EVI's Future Fuels program. Ngarenaro Youth Self Help Group can now also supply potential briquette entrepreneurs with the wooden presses necessary for production. Future plans include developing a municipal biogas plant in Arusha, in order to help manage city sewage and waste while providing a reliable electricity source. They plan to start on a smaller scale with a local biogas plant in their own Ngarenaro neighborhood. Member Organizations
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