MRHP, Tanzania, Brick-making using agricultural waste - Ashden Award winner
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This video can be downloaded here: http://www.ashdenawards.org/winners/mrhp MRHP won an Ashden Award for Sustainable Energy in 2006.
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The Mwanza Rural Housing Programme (MRHP) has trained villagers in northern Tanzania to set up enterprises making high-quality bricks from local clay, fired with agricultural residues rather than wood. These enterprises have made sufficient bricks to construct over 100,000 homes with greatly improved comfort and durability, in 70 villages.
Mwanza, the second city of Tanzania, is on the southern shores of Lake Victoria. The area close to the lake is fertile, but further away the land and people are poorer and there is extensive deforestation. Here houses are usually made from mud, and need frequent repairs and rebuilding because of damage from rain and minor earth tremors. Using wood to make durable, fired bricks has exacerbated the deforestation.
MRHP has developed processes for making high-quality bricks from local clay, which are fired using readily-available agricultural residues like rice husk and cotton waste, instead of wood. Houses made from the fired bricks are durable, comfortable and clean. Homeowners are freed from the hassle of frequent rebuilding, and many use their improved housing for businesses as well. The quality of the bricks is such that they are now being used in building programmes in the city as well as in the rural areas.
MRHP has trained local people in brick-making and business management, and has provided loans through a savings-and-credit scheme to start businesses. This has enabled over 50 brick-making businesses to become established in the 70 villages where MRHP works. MRHP itself operates a large kiln which is fired using sawdust. To date about 100,000 homes have been built using bricks from MRHP businesses. MRHP also runs a programme of tree planting and reforestation in all the project villages, and has trained entrepreneurs to make and sell efficient cooking stoves.
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The Mwanza Rural Housing Programme (MRHP) has trained villagers in northern Tanzania to set up enterprises making high-quality bricks from local clay, fired with agricultural residues rather than wood. These enterprises have made sufficient bricks to construct over 100,000 homes with greatly improved comfort and durability, in 70 villages.
Mwanza, the second city of Tanzania, is on the southern shores of Lake Victoria. The area close to the lake is fertile, but further away the land and people are poorer and there is extensive deforestation. Here houses are usually made from mud, and need frequent repairs and rebuilding because of damage from rain and minor earth tremors. Using wood to make durable, fired bricks has exacerbated the deforestation.
MRHP has developed processes for making high-quality bricks from local clay, which are fired using readily-available agricultural residues like rice husk and cotton waste, instead of wood. Houses made from the fired bricks are durable, comfortable and clean. Homeowners are freed from the hassle of frequent rebuilding, and many use their improved housing for businesses as well. The quality of the bricks is such that they are now being used in building programmes in the city as well as in the rural areas.
MRHP has trained local people in brick-making and business management, and has provided loans through a savings-and-credit scheme to start businesses. This has enabled over 50 brick-making businesses to become established in the 70 villages where MRHP works. MRHP itself operates a large kiln which is fired using sawdust. To date about 100,000 homes have been built using bricks from MRHP businesses. MRHP also runs a programme of tree planting and reforestation in all the project villages, and has trained entrepreneurs to make and sell efficient cooking stoves.
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