About the Company

Imagine a world where the poor no longer have to cut down forests for fuel, where poor farmers have access to free organic fertilizers, where poor people no longer have to die because of indoor air pollution and where young girls no longer have to drop out of school because they have to spend many hours in the field gathering wood for their families! Imagine no more because at Eco-fuel Africa, we're making this world possible!

What we do.

We work with rural farmers in Africa to make clean cooking fuel called gree charcoal and organic fertilizers called biochar from agricultural waste like coffee husks, sugarcane waste etc. Our green charcoal cooks as good as charcoal from wood, lasts longer, burns cleaner and is 20% cheaper than charcoal from wood. This is helping to stop deforestation, reduce indoor air pollution and reduce the amount of money poor people spend on fuel.

Secondly, we use our proceeds to plant trees in Africa in order to try and replace those already lost. We started a tree planting club called FOR TREES which works with local schools and communities to plant trees in forest reserves, school compounds and communities. The target of FOR TREES is to plant at least a quarter of a billion trees by 2030

Thirdly, we empower local communities to start small-scale, local plants making green charcoal and organic ferilizers from agricultural waste. We mainly work with groups of women, farmers and youths in very remote villages and slums in Africa. We train these groups, provide them with our technology and link them to markets through our network of women entrepreneurs. This is creating green jobs, saving forests and empowering communities.