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Ms Perrine Marie Samuella is a beautician from Latanier, Rodrigues. She is, however, not your usual kind of beautician. The owner of a mobile beauty and health salon, Marie uses products that are natural for her work and to make money and make her clients happy. This work involves beauty care and hair dressing using bio products, slimming and relaxation, Ayurvedic and Swedish massage.
The Government of Mauritius was developing and implementing a voluntary Green Agricultural Certification and eco-labelling scheme known as MauriGAP to motivate the supply of safe and high quality locally produced food while promoting more sustainable crop production. However, to motivate sustainable food supply, the government initiative was not adequate, and the market pool needed to be enhanced to motivate planters to practice more sustainable agricultural practices.
Tucked in the island of Rodrigues is small community of young people and mentors. At a glance this passes as a school, home or a community centre. Animal sheds on one corner, beehives, organic gardens on another and structures made of wood and concrete spread across a vast compound. Looking closely though, this institution teeming with young people doing different chores and with youthful life does not look like a school but rather a huge home. Welcome to Centre de Formation Agricole Frere Remi.
For Herman Agathe, a young entrepreneur running an integrated farm in Roche Bon Dieu, Rodrigues Island, Switch Africa Green could not have come at a better time. Through the project, Herman was trained at the Centre de Formation Agricole Frère Remy, in sustainable consumption and production practices in different aspects of farming straddling horticulture, agricultural practices and poultry farming, pig rearing and all related integrated farming activities among others.
Sept Etoiles Beauty Centre is comprised of a group of women entrepreneurs who were trained in making and using organic natural beauty products through SWITCH Africa Green support.
Comprising of 90 members, the entrepreneurs gained knowledge in making natural beauty products. As a result, customers have developed a preference of organic products to the inorganic products.
These entrepreneurs have created new business streams, recording good feedback from customers. They have also recorded a higher number of walk-in customers since introducing these organic products.
Euphorbeie Garden is a family enterprise that has been operational for 25 years focusing on growing exotic flowers. They participated in the SWITCH Africa Green training on floral arrangement under the sustainable horticultural training.
As a result of implementing the various concepts from the training, they have recorded increased revenues, especially in December when there were many events. Their clients include wed- dings, and other celebrations such as funerals and church flower displays. The enterprise also uses pots made out of coconut which help retain moisture.
Ciel Textile is a large scale company based in Port Louis, Mauritius that specializes in textile production. With a daily production capacity of 25,000 pieces, the company is considered a large scale producer in the textile industry. With SWITCH Africa Green support, the company carried out a baseline to understand the type of waste available. As a result, the company noted that plastic formed a significant amount of waste. This led the management to come to the decision of halting packaging of fabric in plastic to reduce amount of plastic coming in.
Christian is a 27-year-old alumni of Centre de Formation Agricole Frere Remy, which is a SWITCH Africa Green grantee. He has participated in different trainings on sustainable agriculture with a focus on chicken rearing. After his time at Frere Remy, he did not fully grasp the respon- sibility and the skill needed to run a farm.
Manisa Hotel is a 42-room hotel situated on the west coast of the island in the Flic-en-Flac area. The hotel uses a solar energy system (45.2Kw) and solar water heaters in all rooms. In addition, they practice rain water harvesting for gardening. With SWITCH Africa Green support, the hotel has conducted a 2 step Gap analysis which mapped the current operational and sustainable production and consumption practices and identified areas of improvement.
By adopting sustainable agricultural practices, Herman Agathe has managed to increase his flock from 4 animals to 126 animals. He has pigs, goats, sheep, chicken, ducks and cows in his flock. Based in Roche Bon Dieu, Rodrigues Island, Herman is an exceptional 18-year old who has managed to reap benefits from his hard work.
On 28 October 2016, a major milestone was achieved under the policy support component of SWITCH Africa Green when the Cabinet of Mauritius agreed to implement the recommendations of the country implementation plan for the programme. In the implementation plan, agriculture, manufacturing and tourism were identified as the priority sectors for greening in Mauritius, with energy, water, eco-innovation, eco-labelling and sustainable trade as cross-cutting issues. The Cabinet’s endorsement will boost government support for sustainable consumption and production in Mauritius.
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