Lucy Everlyn Atim, a climate activist from Alebtong in northern Uganda, has founded Moyao Africa Initiative, a social enterprise that converts discarded shea husks into cooking fuel briquettes as an alternative to charcoal. Uganda loses roughly 122,000 hectares of forest annually — largely to charcoal production — and the shea tree, a culturally and economically important species in the region, has seen its mature populations decline sharply in recent decades. Through her initiative, Atim works with more than 1,200 women organised in savings groups to collect shea waste, produce briquettes, and process shea butter, providing both an affordable energy source and a source of income for households that traditionally bore the burden of sourcing cooking fuel.