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Ugandan Entrepreneur Risks It All To Build Renewable Energy Firm

Ugandan Entrepreneur Risks It All To Build Renewable Energy Firm

Returning home for a visit from the Ugandan capital in 2009, Moses Sanga met his 12-year-old sister on the road carrying firewood.

“She stood there crying, with a heavy bundle of wood on her head,” Moses told National Geograpgic. “She was upset because, like most rural girls, she missed days of school each week searching for fuel wood. My sister … was losing the only opportunity she had to make her life better—education.”

Sanga was so touched that he decide to quit his job in the city and build a renewable source of energy that will help keep kids in school. Eventually he came across the increasingly popular practice of turning organic waste into fuel.

Four years later over 19,000 Ugandan families use coffee husk and sugarcane waste charcoal to cook. He says he targets to 1.6 million families in the next 10 years.