To strengthen the role of youth as agents of community development, the Policy Center for the New South launched a year ago a call for projects grounded in new and innovative approaches to existing local problems. The iCAD is an environmental friendly business whose goal is to recycle household waste and animal droppings to produce green energy in the town of Dschang. The production of the artisanal manure is facilitated through a digitalized customers’ waste management procedure through social apps and texts. Moreover, the company rears chicken and pigs to use their droppings with the waste collected as well as sell them making the eco friendly business more lucrative.
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