Now they're running short of firewood to cook with, but they vowed never to leave this camp again.
That has not deterred her from her next project: reforesting acres stripped by those in search of firewood.
Through a savings mechanism, stove users could turn their reduced firewood expenses into daily cash savings.
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Women, normally, are in charge of going to collect the firewood and the water.
They'd find firewood and make charcoal out of it, and hope they could find a market.
Hemlock Hardware in Fairfield did a brisk business on shovels, batteries, firewood, salt, sand and sleds.
Farms have been decollectivised, but farmers and their families still step on mines while gathering firewood.
She says the woman was too afraid to send her remaining family members out to gather water and firewood.
There are pilot-projects with fast-growing trees that can be pollarded for firewood, and drip-feed irrigation for saplings.
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He had no car, telephone or even bicycle, and chopped his own firewood deep into old age.
Occasionally it would pounce on a piece of bark that had fallen off the firewood, or a shadow.
She already has her next project in mind: to reforest areas that have been stripped by those in search of firewood.
Virtually all of the boats that take people to the various islands and beaches were destroyed - instant firewood.
Great: Run aground, pitch the tarp, collect some firewood, and call it home.
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In one village, this initiative helped a group of farmers who were surviving by collecting firewood and producing charcoal.
In other similar situations, refugees cutting down trees for firewood has, for example, led to tension with local communities.
He stocked up on gas and food, got firewood ready and was installing a baby seat in the car.
The girls were collecting firewood when one of them hit the mine with an axe, a provincial official said.
They also want to introduce a basic code of conduct in the Himalayas, banning firewood for fuel and the use of plastics.
He also planted laurel trees to sell firewood and built a tomato-plant nursery.
They leave the camps quietly, desperate to get firewood to cook with.
The NRK woodathon features firewood specialists providing commentary and advice on subjects such as chopping, stacking and burning the wood.
There are exquisitely painted stone buildings, cuckoo clocks, cow bells and perfectly squared stacks of firewood awaiting the winter freeze.
Many walk several kilometers from their homes in dusty villages each day to scrounge for firewood and to fetch water.
Ms. Alshanskaya and other critics say officials in the resource-rich country could take small steps, like helping to buy firewood.
But Britain had coal, which replaced firewood as a fuel, and colonies with slaves providing plenty of farmland and cheap labour.
During this time, trees drop their leaves, providing nitrogen-rich mulch, and they are then cut and harvested for poles or firewood.
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Officials are also hoping to educate people not to transport firewood to other counties, a common method of spreading the beetle.
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