INNOVATION | Safety through cooking
659 views · Published 21 September 2018 · 1:08 · Indexed 28 October 2026
Channel: Médecins Sans Frontières/Doctors Without Borders · 2018 · Nonprofits & Activism
In volatile northeast Nigeria, MSF has developed an alternative cooking tool: briquettes. “By leaving the enclaves controlled by the army to search for firewood, people were exposing themselves to attacks, kidnapping or sexual abuse,” says Ana Santos, head of the Displacement Unit, a department headquartered in Nairobi focusing on providing assistance to displaced people. Briquettes are blocks of fuel made by pressing bio-waste, like sugarcane peel or groundnut bark, with paper. “Today about 600 households have replaced firewood for briquettes and many more people in the community are replicating the process on their own,” says Ana Santos. “This keeps people safer.” Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) is an international, independent, medical humanitarian organisation that delivers emergency aid to people affected by armed conflict, epidemics, natural disasters and exclusion from healthcare. SUBSCRIBE HERE: http://bit.ly/15M9M8v Help us caption & translate this video! https://amara.org/v/lXm6/
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