Cameroonian activist Christian Achaleke is offering training to prisoners to produce sandals out of End-of-Life Tyres (ELTs).
The tyres are picked by young people and are transported about 20 miles outside Yaoundé where they are recycled into pairs of flip flops by prisoners who are otherwise addressed as Prison-preneurs.
Prison-preneurs recycle and produce sandals out of the ELTs, it takes about four hours to make one pair, and seven flip flops can be made from a normal size tyre.
For Achaleke, who considers himself a Cameroonian activist, the project is an opportunity for rehab...
