A women's group is harvesting water hyacinth that is choking the dam and composting it to produce the substrate on which mushrooms are cultivated for sale. In an interesting twist to this project, the grantee is using waste-paper briquettes produced by another grantee women's group to sterilize the compost prior to its use. This means that neither wood nor charcoal is needed in the process. The total grant was $2,000 and within seven months of the start of the project, the grantee had earned nearly $1,000 from mushroom sales.