Record of wages paid out to local workers:
10 February 2010
8350 briquettes produced - $167 Grupo Caicoli
5500 briquettes produced - $110 Grupo Ai lok Laran
Site Manager - Rei Ramos
Project Manager- Nicholas Molyneux
Project Background
This is a Haburas facilitated AusAid funded project to train youth and unemployed people in Dili to produce fuel briquettes from the available and currently under-utilised organic resources in Dili city. Through doing this we aim to reduce Dili’s dependence on fuel wood, whilst creating jobs for people who previously had little or no employable skills. The benefits of this type of job creation and environmental protection are far reaching and address many of the development goals that are both specific to Timor-Leste and common throughout the developing world.
The Benefits of Briquettes
Briquetting is not about recycling for the sake of recycling, it is much more than that. It begins with the concept of adding value to available primary resources in resource poor circumstances, and ends with tangible benefits for societies and the environment they rely on. This is not a project designed to minimise the waste of first world consumerism, but is instead a way to use the available resources to generate income for local communities and reduce their reliance on natural resources that have already been pushed beyond their assimilative capacity.
We Need Your Help
This project aims to facilitate the production of bio-briquettes in a way that is sustainable in temporal, social and economic terms. In order to do this the Briquette Project relies on an extended community that includes business and institutional bodies donating materials through goodwill. In time, as legislation and enforcement of legislation matures and develops into a system that adequately addresses the real costs of wood fuel and understands the absolute essentiality of protecting arboreal resources, fiscal incentives will naturally fall into place and as such will reduce the dependence of TBP on donations and environmentally aware individuals.
Please feel at liberty to comment on or give constructive criticism to any of the practical or theoretical procedures or actions addressed on this webpage or better, give sound advise and assist the project in anyway you can.
Please feel at liberty to comment on or give constructive criticism to any of the practical or theoretical procedures or actions addressed on this webpage or better, give sound advise and assist the project in anyway you can.
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