tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-61584184431899637832024-03-13T22:13:06.629-07:00Greenpact: Sparked Innovation from 'waste' in the Community!The birth of this blog is as a result of a group of Innovators: Amos Dede and Leroy Mwasaru who stood out to disrupt community conventions, aiming at availing Biogas solutions to curb mainstream problems 6.06 million Kenyans face—Lack of access to cheap clean renewable energy and proper sanitation through it's unique biogas toilet and digester models.
[[P.S: This blog now only serves as an archive. Visit us on https://www.greenpact.co.ke]]Commenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266168897295736590noreply@blogger.comBlogger7125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158418443189963783.post-63294244129319291512016-06-08T05:52:00.000-07:002016-06-08T05:52:10.959-07:00<div>
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Greenpact is dedicated to providing clean cooking gas from what many consider to be "waste". Our efforts have been recognised by the international community, and for this reason, Leroy Mwasaru was invited as a panel speaker at the One Young World Summit in Arizona, USA. Here are his experiences:</div>
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experience representing Greenpact at the Inaugural One Young World Environment
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However, the idea of someone reading this was not plausible. The outright
intention of journeying you through this was conspicuous enough, only that I’m
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it’s my second international bound trip let’s stare at my boarding passes (now
ours) a little longer. It’s real! If you don’t mind, let’s whiz through my
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Stay safe!” There is one problem: she doesn’t buy this as more texts stream in.
I smile. She is definitely overwhelmed that her son is leaving for a land far
away from home. Do you hear our flight number over the PA? You don’t? I’m
afraid I’ll leave you here. Let’s board, shall we? Oh, you don’t need a
boarding pass because you’re reading this. Have a closer look at these boarding
passes- Phoenix via Heathrow. But reality is, we might end up only seeing
Heathrow ads, maybe Heathrow cuisines.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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narration, I slept through it. This warm breeze had a brand of cool that I’m still
trying to define. Summer? This is my first summer experience. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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interesting cab ride to Tucson</a>. I check in at Hilton Tucson and slept off
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world wonder- sunrise at 4.00am. Do you copy?
I am now summer conscious. ‘Late morning’ is when I met Collectively’s
Bethan and fellow Collectively scholarship winner Guro Seim. We prepped for our
TEDx style presentations that were due the next day. Later in the evening we
moved to Biosphere 2. One thing Tucson taught me in the morning: Chips are not
fries; Fries are not chips. Ahem! I guess English really did come by ship, yes?
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owned by the University of Arizona, where eight humans lived for 2 years and 20
minutes away from earth -Biosphere 1 experiencing a whole different ecosphere.
From my pre-tour of the Biosphere 2, it entailed more than science. A story to
back it up to find out if life was malleable outside earth. It was really
fascinating that the dining table original biospherians used to dine on is
still intact, isn’t it? I, like most delegates stayed at a modest casita near
the venue. The welcome dinner was a perfect kick-off to the summit with a
wonderful welcome note from One Young World founders, Kate and David.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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line up: Former President of Peru - His Excellency Alejandro Toledo, CNN
Meteorologist- Jennifer Gray, Founder and Director of Eco Innovators &
Disrupt Design - Dr. Leyla Acaroglu amongst other great speakers. The
presentation I enjoyed most prior to mine (Besides, who doesn’t enjoy his/her
time on stage?) was Ken Kragin’s ‘<i>Magic
of threes’</i>. During his presentation, I came to the realization that he
managed a couple of my favorite comedians and doubles up as a legendary pop
music manager too. Coincidentally, I wrote three heavy short phrases after
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three recipient needs. True to his word, his presentation was in sync with his
subject matter. In between his presentation, there were drumrolls everywhere.
Interestingly, as we squirmed in our auditorium seats, they became louder and
louder. Guess what it was? The Ironwood High School Percussion team that he
trained to claiming the National Champions Title. Taking into consideration
that the presentation was right before lunch, this was just the ‘it’-session
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";"> <o:p></o:p></span><span style="color: #343434; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Our panel was at 5pm that consisted of: Founder of Forum for the
Future, Environmentalist and Author- Sir Jonathan Porritt, COO of </span><a href="https://www.oneearthdesigns.com/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">One Earth Designs</a><span style="color: #343434; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">- Guro Seim and I,
co-founder and CEO- </span><a href="https://www.hwbteam2014.blogspot.co.ke/" style="font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">Greenpact</a><span style="color: #343434; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">.
Guro and I gave the stories behind the sparking of our startups that are
tackling problems facing our societies. Based on the overwhelmingly positive
feedback we got from the audience, we did a good job on stage in engaging the
audience in our journey. Stay tuned to One Young World’s site for the
video.</span><span style="color: #343434; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;"> </span><span style="color: #343434; font-family: 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif; font-size: 11.5pt;">We also got to meet other great
young people doing great things for their communities. From this day’s
activities, a couple of things were straight: - Entrepreneurship is a
combination of social and economical exchange - Do something instead of
shouting about it (be an actor, not the passive audience.) To wrap up this day
we had a well deserved block party. It was great getting to familiarize with
different party customs. All ended well as I got along with fellow delegates
and ambassadors as we partied the night away.</span></div>
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How I comprehend and empathize with these social causes has taken a complete
shift. Probably, a handy tool for Greenpact and my future endavours. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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the attendees’ interests. I was glad to be part of Collectively’s break out
session - <i>“Finding your spark and keeping
it.”</i> Through this workshop we got to
change our mindsets from “I’m inspired but overwhelmed” to “I’m inspired and
ready”. This was followed by two interactive breakout sessions dealing with
environmental & wildlife conservation and one entailing championing of
rights of the indigenous communities by Anna Hohag. One important case study we
highlighted was of a couple of disruptive innovations making synthetic rhino
tusks, all these as we champion for wildlife conservation. The floor remains
open for debate. Is this ethical? This day was gold: we got to have in-depth
tours of Biospehere 2 and get to actualize how life was possible there. Digging
more into the Biosphere 2, we got to realize that ,so , they had their own
miniature rainforest, a private beach with a coral reef. They had a savanna, a
marsh, a desert. They had their own 50-acre farm that they grew everything. And
of course they had their human habitat, where they lived. Let’s visualize this:
it takes a five-minute drive to the grocery store to get groceries, though, for
the biospherians it took them a great deal of patience with golden Biology.
when they breathed C02 that fed the crops that eventually provided some food
for them. They were feeding on themselves in some sort of bizarre way.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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carbon we produce or release, adding weight to the fact that we designed our
systems to kill life- intentional or unintentional- at least for the better
part of life. This is in-fact why we are calling for all manner of COP related
conferences to try and re-awaken our consciousness. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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an Internationally acclaimed spoken word artist, playwright, actor and poet.
From Sekou’s engrossing talk, something was evident: it is his passion that has
propelled him beyond his barriers to a point where he now has numerous awards
and recognition under his name and works; he continues to spread his
inspirational touch to stories, now as a career to company executive boards and
also worth President Obama’s attention at Oprah Winfrey’s backyard! This was
the best culmination for the three-day inaugural One Young World Environment
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-Nairobi. After this, the perfect definition of me would be, to say the least,
a raging ball of energy. And, you may now unbuckle and stretch your legs. We
are back to where we started - Nairobi, Kenya. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">I trust that I gave you more than a blog: I flew you to Arizona,
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someone say ”threes”? There you have it!<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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believing in an 18-year-old social entrepreneur.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">For One Young World and team: Receive my sincerest gratitude for giving me
more than an experience: here’s to the hope you’ve reignited in me that I
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Have a look at <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziS7yYFT6jc">Greenpact’s premier video</a> as well as our social media handles
on <a href="https://www.facebook.com/greenpactke">Facebook</a>, <a href="https://www.twitter.com/hwbkenya">Twitter</a> and be sure to have a look
at our <a href="https://www.hwbteam2014.blogspot.co.ke/">blog</a>. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="color: #343434; font-family: "Trebuchet MS","sans-serif"; font-size: 11.5pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman";">Also, you could drop me a line via e-mail: <a href="mailto:leroy@greenpact.co.ke">leroy@greenpact.co.ke</a><o:p></o:p></span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03589334153320818465noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158418443189963783.post-60707805784084664892016-03-02T03:09:00.002-08:002016-03-02T03:35:33.716-08:00HWB Solutions comes 2nd at the Ye Community Startup Weekend Competition!<br />
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On 20th February 2016, the Young Entrepreneurs community, commonly known as the Ye Community set up a competition for startups, where young entrepreneurs would pitch their ideas to the judges and get a Ksh.50,000 prize in capital funding. Our startup, HWB Solutions, was privileged enough to take part in the event as one of the ten competing startups.<br />
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I have to admit, all the business startups were very brilliant, with well laid out facts and strategies for quality of product or services.<br />
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Leroy and I got to learn and network with our counterparts in the Startup Weekend such as Supermom, Pataphone, E-masomo and Interncube just to mention a few.<br />
Our startup managed to reach the finals stage and clinch the second position by a vote of the audience and judges.<br />
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We also got to meet potential business partners and we are currently networking with them on how to scale the HWB Solutions to the greatest of heights.<br />
Our mission as young entrepreneurs is to create a substantial impact in the energy sector of this globe.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03589334153320818465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158418443189963783.post-37797056988208576262015-05-02T10:35:00.001-07:002015-05-02T10:35:48.902-07:00<u>HWB Team: "Precision in Excavation"</u><br />
The year 2015 has been an eventful year for our HWB Team, full of many activities and discoveries. we had a chance to present our ideas at the Sankalp Africa Forum, which enabled us to reach investors and fellow innovators from all parts of the globe.<br />
We have made major steps in our project by producing biogas for our school kitchen from a prototype biodigester. and still, we have big dreams.<br />
But big dreams come with stumbling blocks, they say, but I view them as challenges and motivations. We still have the task of designing an efficient toilet which will save as much water, and separate any chemical inhibitors to biogas production such as urine. I am determined, and when we finish working on it, we'll be set to go. OUR SOLUTIONAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03589334153320818465noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158418443189963783.post-67797032205780313532015-05-01T07:14:00.001-07:002017-12-28T22:44:19.258-08:002015 ICEBREAKER<span style="font-family: "times new roman";">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">...with mentor (extreme right)and Akaeza from Nigeria(second left)</td></tr>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The first third of the year wraps up with commendable
mentorship programmes gone through by the HWB team, as well as progress. Mid-January
saw our project being nominated for the 2015 Index Award . Credits to Arielle
Mollino who works with Intellecap, on the 6<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">th</span></sup> of February Amos Dede,
Charles Midamba and I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>presented <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>our project at Sankalp Africa Summit in
Strathmore University graced with <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>delegates from 25+ countries. This was a
distinct opportunity to learn from big company CEO’s who have battled their way
to the top ranging from Safaricom’s CEO , Bob Collymore to Stathmore’s
University, Elisha Ndungu. We were lucky enough to have Global Minimum’s Chief
Operations Officer, Elli Suzuki and 2014 Innovate Kenya’s , Abdallah Mohamed.It
was a pleasure to meet with other student innovators eg Akaeza Kpankpondo from
Nigeria who invented a Urine Powered Generator. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Thanks to Makeshift , a premier video featuring our project
released <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>on 23<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd </span></sup> February on
their Youtube Channel, special thanks to Alicia who led the team. The video was
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Nakuru. Big thank you to everyone who has been inputing their effort into the
team to make us prosperous even as we face an accountability partner in
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Earlier this month we were graced by Global Minimum to being
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">The experience was uniquely exciting, right from our tiring
16 hour flight from Dubai to San Francisco, all the way diligently served with
unending hospitality. Sincere thanks to our chaperone, Mr. Dheeraj Sanka for receiving
us from SFO, checking us in at The Ritz, Carlton Half Moon Bay, in addition to
treating us with dinner at the Codmother Fish and Chips. Night life and transport systems
in the city- San Francisco was quite fascinating- this gave me some ideas! After
the treat we then retired to The Ritz Carlton, which is an hour drive from San
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";"> Ariam Mogos, unending regards for staying with us
through the day! <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We set a list of great
personalities to meet at the conference, with all that checked, we signed up
for morning activities. Unfamiliar with golf I <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>gave it a try, thanks to Antony- our
instructor, I’m your buddy when it comes to chipping and teeing ;-) .After two
hours of polishing our skills, the cold had no mercy on my shaky hands we
headed to the ball room where we met David Sengeh and Kate Krontiris, the panel
was complete! We chatted our evening away to our first session right after
dinner, having one of my long awaited speakers in line, Genevieve Belle from Intel
Labs, Jack Dorsey for Square & Twitter moderated by James Surowiecki
from<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Staff Write about- Tech bringing
Equality and Peace. Having my take; slow uptaking of tech widens the gulf
between the rich and the poor as the rich exploit tech to fetch more as the
poor lurk in adject poverty. Hands up to tech bringing equality and peace!<o:p></o:p></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Monday morning was our D day, with our panel scheduled at 9:30 am. It was really
privileged addressing an assembly of great personalities as my inspirations
also tapped from within the panel, David Sengeh who challenged me further into my
work, academics and life of multi tasking , right from prosthetics at MIT to TEDx events and now
a panel member. Responses from the audience right after the audience were
encouraging, one key lesson-<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are of
great importance to your work and contribution to the community. Perhaps this is where Africa’s
youthful generation gets its inspiration to write a chapter in the history of
development. And after the panel was straight to the green room where we got free of the mics!..</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">Joining a tech lab facilitated by Kate Krontiris, was a very
interesting one <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>entailing- How Civic
engagement can be collectively upped by the power of tech and having protocol of
convincing the public into collective action.ie Biometric voting. Backed with
great speakers ; Nigel Jacob, Urban Technologist in Residence, Living
Cities<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jerry Paffendorf, CEO, LOVELAND
Technologies Kathryn Peters, Co-founder and COO, Democracy Works Matt Stempeck,
Director of Civic Technology, Microsoft New York . Lucky enough we got to
exchange ideas with Matt Stempeck and Jerry Paffendorf, it was a great
experience hearing their dimensions of thinking. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "calibri";">After an exhilarating lunch hosted by Ford, we joined our
last Tech Lab moderated by Dan Elron from Strategy and Corporate Development.
With a remarkable set of speakers; Ali Diab, Co-founder and CEO, Collective
Health Dane Howard, Director, Global Brand Experience, eBay Scott Sanborn,
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driven by every day tech . Business leaders have a task to be the disruptors
than disrupted. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Taking this into
consideration; German cars are a unique set with great engines and peak
performance sadly one has to take it back to its manufacturer for a patch/ update,
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performance from The Fray . David and I vividly remember our personal touch with them : -) .
Thanks to Kate Krontiris<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>for double
casting as a shaperone for both of us and David Sengeh for unending encouragement and
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The path from idea from idea to invention is investment in science ,engineering, technology and design. For many businesses it's a new and daunting route, but when it comes to sustainable growth there is no back road.<br />
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As Kenya struggles up the ladder to achieve a developing economy , its efforts are backlashed by its own citizens. In an equal measure foreign aid has helped her citizens and equally instilled dependency among its citizens, it then comes to her citizens that the help does more harm to them. <br />
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Through the help of organizations namely Global Minimum,Rockefeller Foundation among them have made it possible for the youth to put their innovative solutions to solve problems engineering them to working solutions. Most important initiating of campaigns through Innovation competitions.<br />
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: “Over the years we’ve started many Virgin businesses out of frustration at the way things were done in established sectors. Whether it was airlines, mobile telephones or financial services, we’ve stood out by focusing on ways to improve people’s lives through better service, innovation and value. There is little point in entering a new market unless it provides the opportunity to really shake up an industry. If our entry has the potential to make waves, we’re going to look at it very closely. But we always protect the downside and make sure that we have a way out if things go wrong. If a new business has the potential to damage your brand in any way, you should not invest in it.” <br />
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Steve Jobs- Focus: When Jobs returned to Apple in 1997, it was producing a random array of computers and peripherals, including a dozen different versions of the Macintosh. After a few weeks of product review sessions, he’d finally had enough. “Stop!” he shouted. “This is crazy.” He grabbed a Magic Marker, padded in his bare feet to a whiteboard, and drew a two-by-two grid. “Here’s what we need,” he declared. Atop the two columns, he wrote “Consumer” and “Pro”. He labelled the two rows “Desktop” and “Portable”. Their job, he told his team members, was to focus on four great products, one for each quadrant. All other products should be cancelled. There was a stunned silence. But by getting Apple to focus on making just four computers, he saved the company. “Deciding what not to do is as important as deciding what to do,” he told me. “That’s true for companies, and it’s true for products.” <br />
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<br />Commenterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04266168897295736590noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6158418443189963783.post-17945245510639387222014-06-28T12:18:00.001-07:002014-06-29T03:26:29.695-07:00The Human Waste BioreactorOur idea which was fostered by Gmin's Innovate Kenya was as a result of the following upcomings;<br />
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>The school's newest dormitory was completed and it has a capacity of 720 students . The local community held protests against the completion of the dormitory as the villagers constantly complained about the stench coming from the sewage disposal from the dormitories.<br />
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The challenge is important because it motivates us students to think of amicable solutions to the problem. It is a practical problem that is felt and seen by all and therefore needs a practical approach in solving it.The promotion project has the capacity to address energy, health, ecological problems and can be considered as a multi dimensional development approach in Kenya.<br />
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Major insipirations for the production of biogas were political, social , agricultural , environmental , waste recovery and in energy.<br />
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-Agricultural: Waste treatment to obtain fertilizers.<br />
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<strong>OUR BREAKTHROUGHS</strong><br />
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After our first camp we were solicited with some funds to come up with a <br />
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Optimistic about our idea, we drafted calculations on how our project would save the school economically wise, picture this:<br />
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>In one term, the school uses 28 Lorries of wood fuel each 7 tonnes.<br />
>This is equivalent to 2,940,000 KJ of energy.<br />
In order to get this amount of energy;<br />
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1 gramme of methane= 0.055 KJ of energy
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53 tonnes of methane per term= 2,940,00kj of energy<br />
1 term=14 weeks, therefore<br />
1 day= 0.54 tonnes of methane<br />
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if 1 kg of human waste gives 0.0012m3 0f methane then 540 kg of methane requires 1,080 kg of waste <br />
If 1,300 students give 200g each of human excreta per day then 260 kgs waste will be produced daily. This is equivalent to 130kgs of gas per day.<br />
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If 13 kg of LPG cooking gas costs Ksh. 4,000 daily thus saving the school <strong>Ksh.3,920,000 </strong>if the school was to use gas from our digestor.<br />
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After our second camp, we were able to purchase a digestor courtesy of Innovate Kenya under Gmins' stewardship.</div>
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The digestor was affixed to the school kitchen to a gas stove with a meter reading to monitor gas levels.</div>
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Soon after the installation of the digestor we embarked on feeding it, this entailed collecting cowdung from the school farm and collecting food refuse after meals.<br />
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The waste would then be mixed in appropriate ratios with water for optimum production of the gas.<br />
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As soon as there is stable supply of the gas, we hope to avert the dangers that come with using firewood to cook as it remains the source of fuel for the kitchen , clearing our forest cover day by day.<br />
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I am glad that the same project was applied in our rural home ,Taita Taveta, near coast strip, the plant underway will harvest waste from 10 Freshian cows in a zero grazing unit that was initially put to waste, it is my pride that the project will put to perfect use the waste from cows to produce cooking gas for the village, It can also be used in lighting and generating electricity. <br />
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The rural home project is underway, the pictures shows its initial phases of construction:<br />
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