Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) no. 5 (gender equality) is envisioned by Millennium Engineers through the Sardine Fishing Industry Lake Victoria project by empowering 300 local women to take up proactive income generation jobs in the sardine fishing industry value chain through entrepreneurship skills training
The activities of Millennium Engineers in the Sardine Fishing Industry contribute to the socio-economic growth of 1,000 fishers and their communities in the region, which in turn improves the productivity of the low-income sardine fishing industry at Lake Victoria, eventually, increasing the quality of sardines in the region and consequently its value in the global …
This is achieved by the replacement of kerosene lamps for night fishing with solar-powered LED lamps and by establishing sardine drying facilities that use a combination of solar and wind power to significantly shorten the drying cycle. Millennium Engineers is deploying 1000 solar night fishing lamps and setting up eight (8) solar drying facilities in …