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Transcript/Script((PLAYBOOK SLUG: ZIMBABWE REFUGEES GREEN ENERGY(TV)
HEADLINE: Zimbabwe Refugee Camp Goes Green with Animal Waste
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PUBLISHED AT: Friday, 05/12/2022 at 06:45 EDT
BYLINE: Columbus Mavhunga
CONTRIBUTOR:
DATELINE: CHIPINGE, ZIMBABWE
VIDEOGRAPHER: Blessing Chigwenhembe
VIDEO EDITOR: Blessing Chigwenhembe
PRODUCER: Jason Godman
SCRIPT EDITORS: Mia Bush, Steve Hirsch
VIDEO SOURCES: VOA Original,
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TRT: 2:24
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((INTRO))
[[Zimbabwe and the U.N. Refugee Agency, UNHCR, are piloting an effort to avert deforestation and benefit from waste management at the country's biggest refugee camp. The Tongogara camp near Zimbabwe's eastern border with Mozambique has installed machines for refugees to turn animal waste into biogas, which can be used as fuel for cooking, and fertilizer. Columbus Mavhunga reports from Chipinge, Zimbabwe.]]
((VIDEO-VOA: Aerial shots of biogas, close up shot of biogas, Shot of Dominic filling up the digester with animal waste))
((NARRATOR))
Dominic Katumbayi, one of the refugees at the Tongogara refugee camp, now uses organic fertilizer from animal waste for his plants.
((Dominic Katumbayi, Refugee in Zimbabwe)) ((male - Eng. 23 secs))
“Before it was a problem, because fertilize you buy, but this one is free./// Every day I can produce more than 300 liters of fertilizer. Now it’s easy, everybody can come and collect and put in the garden.”
((VIDEO-VOA: Establishing shot of a restaurant, wide shot of Francine cooking, close up shot of Francine cooking, tight shot of biogas flame))
((NARRATOR))
The fertilizer is a byproduct from animal waste after it ferments in digesters. The biogas is free to refugees, some of whom use it for cooking. Francine Kayumba, like Katumbayi, is from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
((Francine Kayumba, Refugee in Zimbabwe)) ((female - Shona. 10 secs)) ((Producers: Same byte available in Swahili))
“We are using biogas because it has the advantage of not producing smoke. If you put pot on the biogas stove it remains clean.”
((VIDEO-VOA: Aerial shot of piggery, wide shot of pigs, wide shot of animal waste))
((NARRATOR))
The Water, Sanitation and Hygiene unit of the UNHCR in Zimbabwe says it started the project after it saw that refugees were struggling to dispose of animal waste at the camp.
((Yuhei Honda - UNHCR Associate WASH Officer)) (male - Eng. 18 secs))
“We are now thinking of managing it in a good way and then we came up with an idea of the biogas from the piggery as part of the management (of animal waste). And this year, we started with a pilot project of this biogas system.”
((VIDEO-VOA: Wide shot of biogas set up, shot of Francine at the biogas dispenser))
((NARRATOR))
The government hopes to secure more funding to expand the project at the refugee camp, which has about 20,000 people.
((Johanne Mhlanga, Tongogara Refugee Camp Administrator)) (male - Eng. 19 secs))
“The biogas project is a cost-saving initiative meant to ensure that refugees get clean energy. Refugees are integrated into modern way of having fuel or green energy. So for us it’s a shot in the arm for the population.”
((VIDEO-VOA: wood fire, pots on wood fire stove, close up of wood fire, shots of biogas digester, drone shot of digester setup))
((NARRATOR))
Zimbabwe says the project will help reduce deforestation near the Tongogara camp. According to officials, Zimbabwe is losing 330,000 hectares of forests annually, some of it through deforestation for energy use.
((Columbus Mavhunga, for VOA News, Chipinge, Zimbabwe))
NewsML Media TopicsArts, Culture, Entertainment and Media
NetworkVOA
Location (dateline)CHIPINGE, ZIMBABWE
BylineColumbus Mavhunga
Brand / Language ServiceVoice of America - English
