Project CHAKO has already been completed, 3 months have flown by. Together with 'team plastic'; a group of women working at CHAKO, and the CHAKO wood team, we were able to design and develop a lamp. It was a wonderful time in which we learned a lot from them and where we also discovered together how we could most efficiently give plastic waste a new life. The group of women have learned how to work with the plastic injection machines and can now produce a lamp independently. We created a total of 3 models in which 0.7; 1.7 and 3.2 kilos of plastic waste are processed. Looking back, Sada, one of the women at CHAKO, says: “At first all the steps were difficult, but in the end I am proud and happy with the end result.” We also received positive responses from the resorts we visited with the lamp, indicating future collaborations. As a group, we would like to thank you very much for your contribution to a cleaner and empowered Zanzibar and who knows, you may soon see the Bahari lamp in the CHAKO webshop.
UPDATE III: CHAKO Plastics
