Recycling waste material
Building blocks from rubble and ash (English). Female engineer in Gaza invents concrete http://www.global
constructionreview.com/innovation/female-engineer-gaza-invents-concrete-block-made-r/
Gas and electricity (Lamine Ndiaye) (en français) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U5DaRqyzzKs
Electronic appliances in Ghana (English) E-waste recycling: https://www.pureearth.org/project/agbobloshie-e-waste/
Nigeria’s Wecyclers in Lagos pick up the garbage abandoned on the streets and are rewarded per kilogram of recyclable waste (English) https://qz.com/africa/469862/lagos-recycling-start-up-wecyclers-wins-55000-from-steve-case-foundation/ ; Interview with Bilikiss Adebiyi the woman student who started the project https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/oct/21/money-lying-streets-meet
-woman-transforming-recycling-lagos-wecyclers
Transforms the Hyacinths into natural fertilizer and electricity – La dépouilleuse du Fleuve Niger (en français) https://www.bbc.com/afrique/region-39772719
Clean up a space of its waste (en français) https://observers.france24.com/fr/20190314-trashtagchallenge-nouveau-defi-encourage-ramasser-dechets
Briquettes an ecological coal (Kivu – R.D. Congo – En français) https://observers.france24.com/fr/20180607-rdc-congo-bukavu-briquette-kivu-etudiant-charbon-ecologique-environnement
Cooking Fuel (Agricultural Waste in English) https://goexplorer.org/cooking-fuel-made-from-agricultural-waste/
Producing electricity
Simple solar lamps Mali (en français) https://observers.france24.com/fr/20170203-mali-france-lampes-solaires-eclairer-enfants-afrikasolar-electricite
Electrifies his village alone (Guinea – en français) https://observers.france24.com/fr/20170915
-guinee- professeur-maths-electrifie-tout-seul-son-village-natal
Build and install small hydropower plants (in English) (https://energypedia.info/wiki/How_to_Plan_a_Mini_Hydro_Power_Project https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI_i8KOzfdc
Gets internet by a new method in an isolated village
Connects an isolated village to Internet through the light! (Ivory Coast – en français) https://observers.france24.com/fr/
20170803-ivoirien-internet-television-lumiere-village-drongouine-cote-ivoire
Using local materials
Furniture and building projects using local materials and workforce ‘in English) https://goexplorer.org/architecture-projects-using-local-materials-workforce/
Rural projects
Ecological Farms in Burkina Faso en français: Examples of Sustainable Agriculture http://www.iedafrique.org/
Fermes-ecologiques-au-Burkina-Faso-exemples-d-une-agriculture-durable-et.html
Organic Farms (Claude Arsène Savadogo en français) https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=1&v=kkwwP2_ptIE
The Songhai Center in Benin in English: development of entrepreneurship in agriculture http://www.songhai.org/index.php/en/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bquoSTUSzU
Le Centre Songhai au Bénin en français: http://www.songhai.org/index.php/fr/
Forest Conservation in Malawi (in English) https://www.rippleafrica.org/environment-projects-in-malawi-africa/forest-conservation-deforestation-malawi-africa
Tree Planting in Malawi (in English) https://www.rippleafrica.org/environment-projects-in-malawi-africa/tree-planting
Enterprise of organic fertilizers for biological farmers (Claude Arsène Savadogo en français) http://www.projet-ricochets.com/?p=1254
Other projects
Stoves low wood consumption made in Malawi in English. https://www.rippleafrica.org/environment-projects-in-malawi-africa/carbon-offsets-made-in-malawi-africa-copy
Creation of a solar panel company (Marcellin Drabo et André Béré) http://www.projet-ricochets.com/?p=1222
Aide pour commencer des projets
Makesense-Aide-commencer-des-projets (In English & en français ) https://community.makesense.org/programme-decouverte/?utm_source=internal&utm_medium=website&utm_campaign=makesense_events&utm_content=makesense_program_hero