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STORY: SENEGAL / WOMEN AND ENERGY
TRT: 5.14
SOURCE: WORLD BANK
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: FRENCH/ WALOF/ PEUL/ NATS
DATELINE: FEBRUARY 2013, SENEGAL
1. Med shot, woman working in kitchen
2. Pan right, woman cutting onions
3. Med shot, woman cooking onions
4. Close up, coals
5. Close up, woman lighting stove pot
6. Close up, woman spooning food
7. SOUNDBITE (Walof) Maimouna Diene, housewife:
“What I save on charcoal lets me buy more rice and pay for other expenses besides food.”
8. Med shot, close up of child with mother in background
9. Close up, child’s face
10. Tilt up, woman cooking in pot
11. Med shot, man working with tools in shop
12. Med shot, man working on cook stoves
13. Close up, man using electric tool; sparks flying
14. Wide shot, workers in shop
15. Wide shot, stoves stacked on each other
16. Close up, woman stacks stove on top of another
17. Med shot, people sitting at table
18. Med shot, woman cooking with pot
19. Wide shot, village homes
20. Med shot, woman carrying bowl on her head
21. Wide shot, village
22. Tilt up, woman with pot
23. Wide shot, woman and man stacking logs
24. Pan left, woman and man stacking logs
25. Wide shot, village home
26. Pan right, trees
27. Med shot, man and woman stacking logs
28. Medium shot, tree
29. Pan right, woman working in charcoal pit
30. Med shot, woman working in charcoal pit
31. Med shot, woman collecting wood
32. Close up, pile of wood
33. Close up, charcoal
34. Med shot, man bagging charcoal for customer
35. Med shot, woman working in charcoal pit
36. SOUNDBITE (Walof) Marietou Ndiaya, charcoal seller:
“When I sell a truck of charcoal, I have double the amount of money I had selling wood. That is why I left selling wood.”
37. Med shot, woman opening freezer
38. Med shot, popsicles in freezer
39. Med shot, woman and kids outside business
40. Med shot, woman sitting on bench
41. Med shot, families standing outside business
42. Med shot, people walking in alleyway
43. Med shot, lamp post with electrical wires
44. Wide shot, village
45. Wide shot, empty village
46. Med shot, electrical board
47. Med shot, inside village home as man walks out
48. Wide shot, village with satellites
49. Med shot, generator
50. Med shot, aluminum shed
51. Close up, animation
52. Wide shot, village group meeting
53. Med shot, village group meeting
54. Med shot, mothers with children
55. Med shot, woman pouring grains
56. Tilt up, woman pouring grains
57. Med shot, woman exchanging grains
58. Med shot, behind grain sorting machine
59. Med shot, woman walking with children
60. Med shot, man working with mill
61. SOUNDBITE (French) Maleine Ndiaye, villager:
“This mill will earn us money. As a group, we got together and bought it, and brought it here.”
62. Wide shot, man talking in forest
63. Wide shot, man walking in forest
64. Med shot, woman walking by honey container
65. Zoom out, woman collecting honey
66. SOUNDBITE (Peul) Habi Sow, entrepreneur:
“Honey now gives me money and we can use it instead of sugar and we can sell it, and if someone in my family is sick I can pay to take them to a hospital.”
67. Med shot, woman cooking on stove
68. Med shot, woman working in charcoal pit
69. Med shot, inside woman’s home
70. Med shot, woman sorting through grains
71. Med shot, behind grain sorting machine
72. Close up, woman pouring water
73. Med shot, woman carrying bucket on her head
74. Tilt up, child to mother
In a way Senegal’s energy transformation starts here with Maimouna Diene preparing a family meal at her home on the outskirts of the capital, Dakar.
She has a new cook stove that cuts her consumption of charcoal in half. That saves her an average of 250 francs per meal –which means she has more money to feed her nine children.
SOUNDBITE (Walof) Maimouna Diene, housewife:
“What I save on charcoal lets me buy more rice and pay for other expenses besides food.”
Women and their dependent children make up the majority of those living in poverty so energy programs here are now being designed to include women in productive activities and leadership roles.
These humble cook stoves for instance are manufactured and sold at a reduced cost.
They’re part of a wider effort to change how Senegal produces and consumes energy
The stoves are available through a government energy project financed in part by the World Bank.
Buying and selling the stoves are providing opportunities for female entrepreneurs.
And They not only save householders like Maimouna money but far from Dakar the project is also helping improve lives of rural women and helping protect the environment.
While consumers are using less charcoal producers are making more money.
That’s because production has become more efficient and proceeds are going straight to communities.
The landscape around Senegal’s Tambacounda region was once stripped of trees that were burned for charcoal.
But now, the project has helped villagers, many of them women to produce charcoal as a sustainable resource. For instance these Cashew seedlings will grow quickly into trees, dead branches can be transformed into charcoal and the nuts will provide additional income.
Marietou Ndiaya, a mother of seven once sold firewood as fuel.
Now she’s learned to make charcoal from the dead branches on her village-managed forest plot.
City dwellers pay more for her charcoal than they did for firewood.
SOUNDBITE (Walof) Marietou Ndiaya, Charcoal seller
“When I sell a truck of charcoal, I have double the amount of money I had selling wood. That is why I left selling wood.”
Marietou also benefits from rural electrification. With recent charcoal sales she bought these freezers and now makes extra money for her family by selling frozen treats. With electricity, she and other women have expanded opportunities to generate additional income
Marietou is not alone. An estimated 250,000 Senegalese are benefitting from the project which works in tandem with Senegal’s Rural Electrification program. Remote areas are being connected to the national grid allowing women, and their families’ greater access to a number of services and to a wider world.
The country as a whole is relying more on sources of energy that are clean and dependable.
Similar work is being done elsewhere in Africa – for example, energy projects that include input from women and give them the power to run businesses and change lives.
The programs encourage the participation of all beneficiaries but especially women who traditionally may be left out of meetings because of their childcare and household responsibilities.
As important consumers of energy women are empowered by having a say in community decisions.
In this Senegalese village, the rural electrification program has helped Maleine Ndiaye and other mothers get organized and share the cost of this solar power powered mill.
SOUNDBITE (French) Maleine Ndiaye, villager:
“This mill will earn us money. As a group, we got together and bought it, and brought it here.”
With their savings and training provided other villagers have planted fruit orchards … or reared livestock.
Habi Sow cultivates honey.
SOUNDBITE: (Peul) Habi Sow, entrepreneur:
“Honey now gives me money and we can use it instead of sugar and we can sell it, and if someone in my family is sick I can pay to take them to a hospital.”
So from a new cook stove, to improved charcoal production to better livelihoods, and stronger economy.
Senegal is transforming its economy, its landscape, and the lives of its people; especially of women who are major consumers of energy, and are key to pulling families up from poverty.
