FAO Innovation Series Part I: Making soap from camel bones

In Part I of our innovation series, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) trains a group of Somali women how to make soap from camels' bone marrow. Everyday, tens of thousands of camels are slaughtered across Somalia, in a country, where meals are heavily meat-driven. The entire livestock sector employs more than half of Somalia's population, with booming livestock annual exports to Gulf states valued in hundreds of million of dollars. However, Somalia's domestic meat production is yet to fully exploit the potential value from livestock by-products. Tones of bones are discarded daily. This soap-making recipe, developed by FAO experts, is passed on to a small group of Somali women with an aim empowering and equipping them with life skills to improve their livelihoods. This initiative is funded by the United Kingdom, under the Sustainable Employment and Economic Development Programme (SEED) in Somalia.
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Produced by Frank Nyakairu, FAO Communications.

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• Somalia
• Livestock
• Africa
• Women
• FAO
• soap
• innovations