Creating Eco-Friendly, Socially Responsible Profit - Sanga Moses

Sanga Moses had a comfortable job at a bank, until one day, he quit. As the National Geographic Emerging Explorer tells it, he wasn't sure what his plan was, but he knew he had to do something to help his little sister get back to school, rather than in the forest, walking 20 miles each week to collect wood to burn in their kitchen stove. After extensive research and contacting the local university, he and a team of engineering students created kilns that would turn agricultural waste, like sugar cane and coffee husks, into a fine powder, which was then pressed into pucks to be sold as fuel. The establishment of his company, Eco Fuel Africa, created a market that allows farmers to sell their agricultural waste, women in the market to act as retailers for his more environmentally friendly fire fuel, and Moses' sister gets to return to school.