It’s at the end of the month in January when in Nakuru farmers are preparing land to start planting in March. This is the driest month so to speak and no farmer will dare have anything on the farm leave alone vegetables. Use of bio-slurry has been a double blessing to Mr. John Mbugua a [...]
THE ARUSHA TALE
The Family Agony Mr. and Mrs. Seleman are a couple with three children. They are farmers living in Arusha, Tanzania. For a long time, they had been using firewood, charcoal, purchased gas, electricity and Kerosene as sources of energy for their household. Their misery can well be conceptualized considering the disadvantages associated with the named [...]
Biodigesters in Sanguie, Burkina Faso: From the Horse’s Mouth
Biogas intervention has touched many lives. At times it is hard to explain, more so, by a third party. It is in this perspective that the experience below was recorded verbatim from a client, a lady, whose life was never the same after her encounter with the biogas project. “Getting it from the horse’s mouth”, [...]
THE JOURNEY OF FORMING A BIOGAS CONSTRUCTION COMPANY: THE STORY OF PETER THUO, FROM NAIVASHA, KENYA
Peter is a mason by profession. Due to the passion he developed towards biogas industry, he resigned from his work as a building construction supervisor to concentrate on biogas construction. After the training, he started by doing construction work himself; his neighbor being the first client. Now he has his own construction company, Pejo Biogas [...]
KENDBIP CONSTRUCTS 4,500 BIODIGESTERS! WHAT IS BENITH THE NUMBERS?
Kenya Domestic Biogas Programme (KENDBIP) is a National Implementing Agency for ABPP in Kenya. To date, around 4,200 digesters have been constructed under their auspices. All this was achieved in two years. That has never happened in Kenyan biogas history! At this point, it is worthwhile asking, ‘is it all about the numbers?’ The story [...]
BIOGAS: FOR REDUCED HOUSEHOLD EXPENDITURE AND INCREASED FARM PRODUCTIVITY
The 2011 Kenya National Biogas Users Survey indicated up to 100% cash savings from money previously spent on purchasing of LPG, among the households whose plants were functioning efficiently. There are numerous cases of savings on other forms of fuel such as firewood and charcoal as well. Bioslurry generated from the biogas plants have helped [...]
“IT’S REAL!” BIOGAS QUEEN AFFIRMS
A passionate and smiling Lilian Lelei sums up her engagement as a mason in three words, “biogas is real.” Working as a mason since 2005, Lilian started her own biogas construction company six years later employing four other masons to her now expanding business. But Lilian is not an ordinary mason in the field; she [...]
Uganda hits 1000, King graces occasion
On the eighteenth coronation ceremony of the King of Buganda, the Uganda Domestic Biogas Programme commissioned its 1000th biogas plant in Gombe village, Wakiso district. At the home of Mr. and Mrs. Sseruggo, the new plant constructed using the Interlocking Soil Stabilized Blocks (ISSB) was commissioned by the King of Buganda His Highness Ronald Muwenda [...]
Sparing the Mau, adopting biogas,Saving environment!
Located to the south of Mau forest, the small village of Kabugunot in Kuresoi has seen gradual depletion of the ecosystem due to deforestation in search of fuel and farming land. The village is a shadow of its former self; the forest cover is gone and the fuel wood hitherto available only a few minutes [...]
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