Kyenjojo Women Start Campaign to Conserve Environment

Jan 13, 2020 | Wilson Asiimwe
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The women groups along Matiri Central Forest Reserve have been mobilised by the Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) and CARE International, with the aim of improving their household incomes, through alternative sources of income.

Women in Kyenjojo district have stepped up efforts to conserve the environment as one way of mitigating the effects of climate change.

The women groups along Matiri Central Forest Reserve have been mobilised by the Joint Effort to Save the Environment (JESE) and CARE International, with the aim of improving their household incomes, through alternative sources of income.

In Matiri Parish, the women have started making charcoal from waste materials, with an aim of stopping the encroachment on the forest reserve.