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Vegetable Oil Income with Ecological Soap

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Worldwide billions of liters of kitchen oil is consumed each year. After it?s used the majority of the homeowners discard the cooking oil by means of pouring it down the sink drain thus clogging the sewers and furthermore obstructing the pipes/tubes and polluting the earth and the water. Some studies have indicated that one liter of oil can contaminate up to 1 million liters of water.

The means of utilizing used fried vegetable oil for the production of homemade soap was chosen by the BFA of Brazil as being a way for the community to obtain an income and to help in the preservation of the environment by being ecologically correct from its recycling of the oil.

General Objective

We offer to the community members the possibility of income and dignity, in ways of contributing towards the preservation of the environment with the reduction of the amount of fat residues that would go to finish contaminating the water resources in our planet.

Specific Objectives

* The project participants will establish a great net of residential and commercial collections;
* To acquire knowledge and to motivate the entrepreneurs in the culinary industry (residencial and commercial) of the importance of its participation in the project of storing the oil;
* To divulge the project to the final consumers of the restaurants, bars and residential homes indicating that they are participating in this program providing signs, stamps or logos that can be displayed on their homes, buildings and restaurant menus.

Project Direction

We are currently initiating the soap course with 18 participants involved. We are testing different recipes to be able to provide assorted products for the consumers. The members of the community are being invited to join in to particcipate in the used vegetable oil program.

Our Mission

30 people of the community in cooperative form, where the participants will be assisted during the first 6 months with a responsible instructor for the technical accompaniment of its work, operational and administrative support of the BFA to help and to direct optimum ways that the cooperative must follow.

After the 6 month period the cooperatives will be able to work alone. BFA will continue with follow ups and direction to make certain that the individuals are implementing the proper proceedures of the commercialized products.

Employed Methodology

Education

Members of the community are invited to participate and receive information on the vegetable oil program and from this they will acquire the knowledge from the people to join in on the used vegetable oil projects.

The registration of the participents is made thru a questionaire which will include their names, addresses, telephone numbers and the amount of used oil.

The used vegetable oil will go on to be stored in special plastic bins with covers that will be periodically collected by the members of the community.

During the collection of the used oil BFA will be presented as the institution who is involved in the co-ordinated program.

Collection of the Oil

The collection of the oil will come from commercial and private residential establishments that use vegetable oil. Where the members of the community will make the community members aware of the problems from the saturated oil when launched in an incorrect way into the environment dirrectly into the sewerlines.

Storage

The collected oil will be stored in specially designated bins for this cause. Where and when necessary for the soap production.

Awareness

In parallel it will also be an environmental education with the community children and also in the schools. Where the students will be informed on the problems of the used fried oil in our drains, its problems related to the environment and the positive outcomes from the recycling of the oil. The children will return the knowledge received through a drawing on the subject with a reward for the chosen project.

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Project Profile

HDSX ID:

pp-5

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SECTOR:

Livelihood Development

PROJECT DURATION:

12 months

PROJECT BUDGET:

US $ 0

SHARES ISSUED:

0

SHARES AVAILABLE:

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Project Budget

Livelihood Development

Almost half the world — over three billion people — live on less than $2.50 a day , without access to many of the social services basic to a decent human life. Their plight requires a global, comprehensive and urgent response to provide them with the tools they need to overcome poverty and attain sustainable livelihoods.

The Need for More and More Productive Livelihoods

The economies of developing countries are frequently characterized by large informal sectors, where labor has very low productivity and, therefore, marginal profitability. Such economies also frequently suffer from high under-employment or unemployment. Lack of gainful economic activity is a major cause for poverty, which feeds a large number of social ills such as poor education, diminished health and social unrest.

In this context, enhancing livelihoods becomes imperative to advance human development. Livelihoods are improved through multiple processes:

  • By enhancing the skills and knowledge of individuals, so that they can better engage in self-subsistence and/or entrepreneurial activities making them more efficient, productive or profitable. Such efforts involve not only imparting training and skills development, but also facilitating access to appropriate technologies and methods, and to broader financing options for the poor. In many developing countries, enterprise development centers have been successful at assisting the development of start-up enterprises by providing skills development workshop, entrepreneurship skills and training, product design and marketing advice and other related activities.

  • By aiding the construction of commercial networks and partnerships, particularly for product marketing and commercialization. Sometimes, developing linkages among small enterprises and large domestic or multinational companies can help nurture the smaller companies. Particularly since linkages between different types of firms in developing countries provide an effective channel for local companies to gain access to markets, financing, skills and know-how.

  • By generating of alternative economic opportunities in order to provide new sources of employment in communities particularly affected by poverty. This entails the identification of untapped areas with potential for growth, the removal of barriers to the establishment of businesses in those economic segments, and assistance to enterprise development. Frequently, business opportunities exist in bottom-of-pyramid markets. However, it is a prerequisite for businesses to be able to operate to ensure basic community infrastructure, such as sustainable delivery of energy, water and sanitation to the underprivileged neighborhoods where such business would operate. In additions, market facilities or access and transport roads might need to meet basic standards.

  • By reducing livelihood vulnerability, through diversification of income sources, and through improved sustainability of natural resources as economic inputs.

Some Best Practices in Livelihood Development

  • Incubate and support the development of income generating activities through small business formation and operation services, micro-credit, training and building of marketing channels.

  • Enhance or restore traditionally productive sectors, such as agriculture, livestock, fisheries and small industry.

  • Improve family or community owned enterprises’ access to productive inputs and to value added components in the production and distribution processes.

  • Introduce productivity enhancing technologies, such as irrigation systems, machinery for agricultural production, or fish farming technologies.

  • Create stronger production and marketing linkages through training and skills development, through creation or strengthening of local organizations such as cooperatives, and through seed capital contributions.

  • Promote alternative income sources by identifying economic areas which have unexploited potential and devising strategies for making them accessible to the working poor.

  • Construct community infrastructure related to livelihood development and overall well being, including market facilities, access and transport roads, and water and sanitation systems, etc.
 

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