Kibera embracing cheap and clean energy
- Posted on Sunday 16 May 2010 - 16:58Beryl Omunya, VoicesofAfrica mobile reporter in Nairobi, KenyaKibera residents, in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, have acquired a clean, cheap and reliable source of energy for preparing their meals. Through an NGO known as Umande trust, Kibera residents have managed to put up five bio centers in different villages of Kibera.. The centers provide sanitation facilities including toilets and bathrooms as well as cooking gas produced from the human waste.Loading video...Residents use the latrines at a fee of 2 Kenya shillings per visit and the bathrooms at a fee of 10 Kenya shillings per bath. Something they find cheaper and reliable since they used to take showers from outside their houses and use 'flying toilets' i.e. putting their human waste on polythene bags and throwing the bags over the iron sheet roofs.
Under the facility there is a big tank where all the waste is channeled to, here water is separated from the waste and the air produced is channeled to pipes to the kitchen which is later used as gas. Residents pay a fee of 10 Kenya shillings for preparing meals.
Many residents have embraced this method since it is cheap and clean compared to what they used before. Most of them used charcoal and paraffin which are relatively expensive .a tin of charcoal goes for 35 Kenya shillings and can not prepare the whole day's meals.
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