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Chebet Lesan: Kenyan entrepreneur who beat 22k other Africans to win KSh 33M in Jack Ma Foundation's contest

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News | Dec 03, 2020 | Japhet Ruto

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Chebet Lesan: Kenyan entrepreneur who beat 22k other Africans to win KSh 33M in Jack Ma Foundation's contest

Kenyan company provides an alternative to firewood using agricultural waste

MOTO charcoal briquettes for sale at a kiosk.

News | Sep 16, 2020 | Nelly Murungi

How We Made it in Africa
Kenyan company provides an alternative to firewood using agricultural waste

Tracking impact data at 2017 D-Lab Scale-Ups venture BrightGreen Renewable Energy, Nairobi

Yvonne (BrightGreen's intern) and Moses (BrightGreen's delivery man), helping set up the display shelf for Rosemary, one of BrightGreen's distributors.

Blog | Sep 24, 2018 | Erika Desmond, MIT D-Lab Monitoring and Evaluation Fellow, Summer 2018

Tracking impact data at 2017 D-Lab Scale-Ups venture BrightGreen Renewable Energy, Nairobi

Three young Kenyans honoured by the Queen

News | Aug 11, 2017 | Caroline Chebet

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Three young Kenyans honoured by the Queen

Bringing poverty-alleviating solutions to market in India, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania, and Uganda

D-Lab Scale-Ups Fellow Chebet Lesan holds a bag of her company's innovative charcoal briquettes, which are made from recycled waste. Lesan is the founder and CEO of BrightGreen Renewable Energy, which provides affordable, clean, safe, and eco-friendly charcoal briquettes for low-income households in Kenya.

News | Aug 16, 2017 | Nancy Adams, MIT D-Lab

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