Matís continues with a project aimed at setting up smokehouses throughout Africa. The purpose of this project is to ensure a healthier environment for smoking seafood as well as to promote better utilization of the raw material. This time it is built in Sierra Leone and in Liberia.
Various challenges have arisen and, for example, a solid foundation had to be built under one hut in Sierra Leone where the subsoil was such that it would eventually give way if it had not been reinforced.
Margeir Gissurarson has problems with the project and has just returned home after going to Liberia on the same mission immediately after his work in Sierra Leone.
The project is a collaborative project of the United Nations University School of Fisheries (UNU-FTP), The Ministry for Foreign Affairs and addresses the World Bank's mission in this area.
