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Teenagers build head-turning furniture from surprising materials: 'A valuable resource'

Summary by thecooldown.com
Sixteen-year-old Moses Ekadeli doesn't just see a stubborn thorn bush. He sees the next chair he'll build. In the dry heat of Turkana County in northern Kenya, Moses and dozens of other teens living in the Kakuma refugee camp are flipping an ecological threat into a tool for change. They're making head-turning furniture from a plant that most people want gone. The plant is mathenge, or Prosopis juliflora. It was introduced from South America in …

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thecooldown.com broke the news in on Sunday, July 6, 2025.
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