Thursday, December 18, 2008

Cleaning Up.





Finding good income generating activities that are simple enough to undertake in the refugee camps is not easy.

But thanks to one of our ARC Rwanda staff, we found this man, Toucasse, who is a local soap entrepreneur.

He was willing to share his knowledge with some of our refugee groups, and yesterday we completed two days of training on the theory and practice of making liquid soap and shampoo.

Today the groups are working on their marketing plan.

One of the men in the group decided to demonstrate the shampoo by trying it out in front of the others, and as you can see, it seems to have worked quite well!

This should be a great activity for the twenty people in the group, not only for the income that they can generate but also for the knowledge that they gain and the opportunity that they have to help make the camp a cleaner place.

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