TUTU:E566-BEA

January 2024: Forty-six-year-old Tutu provides for her family by selling charcoal.  Most Liberian households use charcoal for cooking, so it is a commodity that is in demand.  However, making charcoal is a TEDIOUS process.  You must cut down trees, chop the tree trunk and limbs into small pieces, construct an earthen mound to cover the pieces of wood, then build and monitor a slow fire within the mound for three days to “char” the wood into coal. Tutu usually buys from those who burn charcoal, and she sells by retail. A business development grant has enabled her to process her own charcoal and sell it wholesale to earn more profit. Sponsored by: CoStar Group