Women in the Hohoe Municipality have been empowered to take advantage of the huge market space and demand for Charcoal produced from bamboo.
Bamboo charcoal comes from pieces of bamboo plants, harvested after at least five years, and burned in ovens.
It benefits environmental protection by reducing pollutant residue and is also an environmentally functional material with excellent absorption properties.
The project which is being spearheaded by the Member of Parliament for the Area, Bernice Adiku Heloo, will make the bamboo charcoal processing almost 95 per cent faster than the one made with ordinary wood.
Ms Heloo at the launch of the program at Fodome Heloo in the Hohoe municipality indicated that the project was introduced and was informed by the need to protect the environment, by halting the indiscriminate felling of trees for charcoal production.
Ms. Heloo also indicated that the initiative will go a long way to benefit special schools in the area.
She said the project will empower women to be economically independent.
“The project is aimed at empowering the people especially women”
She is also of the view that bamboo planting would help reduce carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to the barest minimum, thereby helping to address global warming.
The MCE for Hohoe, Andrew Terry Ofori in an interview with Joy News said it is a good one that the assembly will collaborate with the MP to make project successful as it is an avenue to make the people in the communities economically sound.
“We will do our possible best as an assembly to help our people to make sure that dream of our MP is achieved” Mr Ofori
Charcoal and firewood, serve a large proportion of Ghana’s energy needs for cooking and heating.
