Field Coverage

Haiti "Cash for Work" Helps Produce Alternate Source of Cooking Fuel

26 February 2010

The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)'s ""Cash for Work"" initiative partners with the Sant Triyaj Fatra Kafoufey recycling factory in Port-au-Prince to turn paper trash collected from the streets into briquettes. The paper briquettes can be used as cooking fuel rather than the wood-based ""charbon"", a charcoal whose production contributes to Haiti's deforestation problem.

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