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Foundation describes loans to bring LPG to Kenyan and Ghanaian households
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Anne Hyer of the Bettering Human Life Foundation told Uinta Basin meeting attendees that the group is financing local entrepreneurs with low-interest loans to expand liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) access and credit plans for households and schools in Kenya and Ghana.
Anne Hyer, representing the Bettering Human Life Foundation, told attendees at the Uinta Basin Collaborative meeting in Duchesne County that the foundation is using low-interest loans to help local businesses distribute liquefied petroleum gas, or LPG, in Kenya and Ghana.
The foundation — launched by Liberty Energy and now about a year old, Hyer said — has focused on the “energy poverty” chapter of its work by financing entrepreneurs who will bring cylinders, distribution cages and payback plans to rural communities. Hyer said the foundation has disbursed its tenth loan in Kenya and Ghana as of the week before the meeting.
“2,100,000,000 people around the world who still cook every single meal as if they're camping,” Hyer said, describing the scale of household…
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