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Hadja Diallo
Age: 40
Home: Bewedji, Senegal
Water, clay and cow dung - that’s all you need to make an energy-saving stove. Hadja Diallo has helped to make nearly a hundred in villages in northern Senegal. It takes her an hour and a half to mix the ingredients and mould the stoves. Then she leaves them for a week and after that they’re ready to be used. The stoves make cooking much faster and use less wood – crucial in an area where wood is scarce.
Filed in: Africa, Climate Change

Climate change in Senegal

Northern Senegal is experiencing a 30-year drought
The desert is advancing at a rate of 300 metres a year
Deforestation has exacerbated the drought conditions and wood for building fences, houses and for fuel, is a precious commodity
Local non-governmental organisation Union pour la Solidarite et l’Entraide (USE) through its programme for the integration of Podor (PIP) developed the idea of the energy-saving stoves and taught Hadja and other villagers to make them

Filed in: Africa, Climate Change

Senegal

Senegal
population: 11.1 million
population living on under $2 a day: 67.8%
traditional fuel consumption as percentage of all fuels used: 72%
(traditional fuels = wood, charcoal, animal and veg waste)