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.
Growing mushrooms at Chiwembe Dam in Limbe 
