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Processing, Handicraft, Recycling, Natural Cosmetic, Agriculture and Plants Products

Our products result from our projects and entrepreneurial activities. We employ artists, farmers and young women who are involved in food processing or natural cosmetics production. We promote the products for long-term health conditions locally, regionally and globally.

Two groups: current and planned products.

Our current products:

1- Processing of tropical plants as complementary food or dietary supplements.

2- Production of complementary food or dietary supplements, such as tropical snacks, dried leaf tea and tea bags.

3- Production of natural cosmetics, including plants containing high-nutritional elements for better skin and hair health.

4- Artisanal and artistic products.

5- Production or recycling of plastics into art and handicraft works.

Products in planning or current development:

1- Fish products

2- Mushroom products

3- Honey products

4- Compost products

5- Green and up-cycle buildings such as crisis and disaster shelters, which we plan to demonstrate in the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center, Ongoing Project: Ecovillage Centre des Hommes (ECDH) . You can read about this in a short article: Project Ecovillage Centre des Hommes

These planned and developing products form part of the social entrepreneurship element of the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes project.

We promote consumer vegetable oils and essential oils that are rarely or irregularly found in markets outside Togo.  We are promoting oils deriving from tropical plants that contain high-nutritional elements, such as ocimum, moringa, cinnamon, citronella, coconut natural oil etc.

An appeal to add value

CDH needs funds to improve our project management and to make production more efficient.  Improving management involves educating farmers in permaculture, regenerative agriculture and growing moringa, changing perceptions, and creating employment. Making production more efficient requires additional funds for various machines, including for extraction and distillation of moringa oil, to pound moringa dry leaves into powder, and to crush Moringa fresh leaves, and to provide transport for harvested moringa.

Our actual productions

Production of tropical plants, complementary food, tropical snacks, dried leaf tea and tea bags, natural cosmetics, handcraft and arts products, and plastic recycling goods

Tropical plant products

We grow food and plant trees, grass, plants and vegetables. We work with farmers by giving them knowledge and skills from which they can benefit quickly. We obtain and share the plant seedlings with them. Together with farmers we produce tropical plants which are good for the health of people and the earth, which contain high-nutritional elements (vitamins and minerals), and which can be transformed into food supplements.

Plants, trees, foods, vegetable

  • Moringa, seedlings, cashwer, cacao, cinnamon, lemon grass, noni, local food, vegetables etc.

  • CDH with ECDH plants
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  • CDH product
  • CDH product

Food supplement products

We create contractual employment in the field of processing plants into food supplements.  This helps young women to gain an income to support themselves and develop independence. They process plant products into food supplements and snack products such as moringa, noni powder, dried leaf tea, peanut butters and snack products.

Food supplements products

  • Moringa, noni powder, tea, peanut butters and snacks

  • Moringa big tea bag
  • Cinnamon dried leave tea

Natural cosmetic products

As well as the production of food supplements, we use young women for occasional, contractual work in natural cosmetic production. 

Doing Moringa prepartion juice to put in moringa soap.

They make handmade shampoo, skin-hydrating cream, ointments, soap, and shower and hand gel, which contain plants with medicinal qualities.  They make moringa skin-hydrating cream, shampoo, soap, shower and hand gel, and ointments. We also make cosmetics naturally from other plant ingredients like cinnamon, ocimum, coconut etc.

Natural cosmetics products

  • Moringa soap, skin-hydrating cream, shampoo, shower and hand gel etc.

  • EcoMoringa cream

Handmade moringa shampoo production

Handicraft and art works

The artists who cooperate with Centre des Hommes produce aesthetic, beautiful artistic objects from wood, fabric, leather, ceramic, and perle.  We promote their effort by retailing their work.  We pay them the price they want for each work, and offer materials and tools to assist them to sell both locally and beyond Togo.  Work includes batik t-shirt and fabrics, wooden statuettes of all sizes, leather products, necklaces, bracelets etc.. 50% of the earnings go to the artists, and the rest to the Centre des Hommes projects.

Handicrafts and art objects products

  • Wooden statuettes, earrings, Djembe drum, batik T-shirts, fabrics and pictures etc.

  • Exotic earrings.
  • Exotic Earrings, cacao
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  • CDH product

Handicraft Statuette Production (Sculpture)

Handicraft Exotic Batik Pictures Production (Batik)

Handicraft Statuette in Miniature Production (Sculpture)

Handicraft Exotic Batik T-shirt Production (Batik)

Promotion of other products

We promote some products that are good for human health such as essential oils, vegetable oils for consumption, honey, coffee beans etc.. We are planning to produce these products ourselves in our future training centre, Ecovillage Centre des Hommes.  We are already making the necessary plantings.  We promote the following essential oils in our product range: cinnamon, moringa, citronella, mint, ginger, ocimum, basilium.

Products we are promoting:

  • Essential oil (moringa, cinnamon, citronella, ocimum etc.), vegetable oil (shea butter, coconut etc.) honey.

  • Citronella oil, 1L

Recycling of organic and inorganic waste

We raise awareness of waste management through our social action in environmental education activity with farmers and schoolchildren.

With school children we teach them both how to plant useful trees and the importance of not throwing plastic waste into the ground.  We open their eyes and raise their consciousness to the dangers to living beings and the environment from unthinking disposal of plastic waste.  We give them skills in sorting organic and inorganic waste, and put that into practical sessions where they separate inorganic from organic waste.  We collect and sort plastic waste and clean, wash and disinfect it carefully.  Finally we recycle it into finished goods such as raincoats, wallets, computer bags, hats etc..

We also use plastic waste to build shelters, up-cycled buildings.  These can be built at times of natural disaster and crisis to save the lives of victims.  We also use a variety of materials such as bamboo, fabrics, cardboard, paper, etc. to build shelters, called green-building.  This kind of shelter can be built for women in vulnerable households to use as a workshop and place to display and sell their products.  It can also help as a sleeping house in a crisis situation.

Both up-cycle and green-building will be taught and demonstrated in the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes project training center.

Reclycling Plastic wastes

  • Plastic Wastes Transformed To Useful Finished Good Arts As Computer Recycle Bag, Hat, wallets, Rain coat etc.

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  • CDH product

Up-cycle and green bulding

  • Build Up A Shelter From Recycling Plastic Bags And Bottles. Also with Clay, Bamboo, Wooden Stuff, cardboard, Paper etc.

Products in planning or current development

These products are planned to be demonstrated in theory and practice in the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center.  We are planning the production of fish, honey, mushroom and bread products, some including plant ingredients. These will be linked at ECDH with teaching of social entrepreneurship.

Compost Production

We raise awareness about the rational use of pesticides by opening their eyes to the dangers they and the environment face by using chemical fertilisers. We teach them the alternative of making natural compost to increase their productivity.  Our compost is made out from organic waste such as leaves, food leftovers, paper and egg shells; with permaculture nothing is wasted.

Compost production based on coffee husks

  • Training for cooperatives on the production of coffee husk compost

Fish production

Fish production is planned for the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center.  A professional specialist will be responsible for training.

 

Fish production

  • Fish production and the professional trainer who will run fish production in the ECDH center.

Honey production

Honey production is planned for the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center. A professional specialist will be responsible for training.

Honey production

  • Honey production and the professional trainer who will run honey production in the ECDH center.

Mushroom production

Mushroom production is planned for the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center.  A professional specialist will be responsible for training.

 

Mushroom production

  • Mushroom production and the professional trainer who will run mushroom production in the ECDH center.

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Insects and Butterflies production

Education of the local population about insect-based production will start with showing Togolese insects in art paintings.  Insect-based production is planned for the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center.  A professional specialist will be responsible for training.

Insects and Butterflies production

  • Insect-based production and the professional trainer who will run entomological production in the ECDH center.

Ceramic production

The production of ceramics is planned for the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center.  A professional specialist will be responsible for training.

Ceramic production

  • The production of ceramics and the professional trainer who will run ceramic production in the ECDH center.

Seedling production

The production of plant seedlings in nurseries is planned for the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes training center.  A professional specialist will be responsible for training.

Seedling production

  • Seedling production and the professional trainer who will run seedling production in the ECDH center.

Summary of Ecovillage Centre des Hommes

CDH throughout its ECDH project intends to ensure farmers can grow plants, foodstuffs that can be harvested after just one year.  The idea is to diversify agriculture and to change agricultural production to grow the local economy, help farmers become more resilient, reduce poverty, hunger and malnutrition, and maintain food sovereignty.  The variety of plants that CDH is growing with farmers are moringa, cashew, cinammon, noni, artemisia, banana, plantain, eucalyptus, acacia, lemon grass, citronella grass, turmeric, yams and cassava. With the help of the Ecovillage Centre des Hommes we hope to transform agricultural crops, plants of high nutritional value, and grass into food supplements, consumption oils, essential oils etc.  And CDH will develop the global market linkages that will develop the local economy.  Take a look at our Shop pages to see some of our products.

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The images show ECDH land that is growing plants for food and processing into a variety of products.  The intention is to facilitate food security and promote the growth of the local economy.

  • CDH promotes plants such as arthemisia, cinnamon, moringa, noni, cashew etc.

  • CDH promotes foodstuff such as tomato, okro, ginger, turmeric etc.

  • Also foods such as tubers, cassava, yam etc.

  • Also fruits such as pineapple, banana and plantain, cashew fruit, groundnut etc. Also grass varieties such as lemon grass.

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CDH and its active members are committed to raise awareness of environmental education for adults and children, in order to reduce the waste and pollution in nature, ensure fresh air, live well, and to protect cultivable agricultural soils.  Also to reduce flooding by not blocking drains with plastic bags, to reduce the production of carbon and gases harmful to the ozone layer when burning plastics.  Finally, to recycle by creating other useful finished goods from plastic waste that can be a source of income for young people. Organic waste from plants including trees can be used to build shelters, to make wood fires for heating, and to form compost.  Inorganic waste, especially plastics can be recycled also to make shelters or create finished goods and visual arts.

Watch below some example pictures of plastic recycled into shelter or finished visual arts created by CDH members!

CDH environmental education to collected plastics wastes which abounds and destroys the environment. The plastics wates collected recycled to shelter or finished visual arts goods to generate income and to make resilience against poverty

  • Environmental Education of collecting plastics wastes bottles and bags. The idea behind is to recycle these plastics wastes to build for example shelter as upcycling building. From wooden stuff we can build green-house.

  • Environmental Education of collecting plastics wastes bottles and bags. The idea behind is to recycle these plastics wastes to create for example some finished goods as visual arts. We made out from plastics bags raincoat, hat, wallet, bag in different type (school bag, shopping bag, computer bag, back bag etc.)

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