Greenchair Company has launched a campaign dubbed 'Crowd funding' that is targeted at reaching residents in Nairobi slums.
The company deals with charcoal that is made from agricultural and other organic wastes. It also distributes improved cooking stoves.
On Tuesday, Greenchair launched its Crowd Funding campaign in a bid to promote the use of environmentally clean cooking stoves that use charcoal made from biodegradable agricultural waste.
Speaking during the launching event, Tom Osborn, the Greenchair founder said his initiative is aimed at raising over one and a half million shillings in the next two months to enable the company to roll out its energy accessibility plan. He further explained that the plan shall be based in Nairobi's informal settlements of Kibera and Mathare where the residents have poor access to the environmentally fit source of fuels.
The Greenchair campaign is hoped to reach over hundred thousand households in the slum areas within the next one year and further provide training to a hundred women to empower them. The initiative, according to Osborn is also meant to create employment opportunities to slum dwellers who have for long been living without job opportunities.
It is no doubt that slum residents will find the initiative interesting and worth embracing.