Overview of the project

We use alternative energy support through bio gas to Mbegani community to reduce deforestation in kwale county kenya. This project benefits women and children. In Mbegani, women spent around 3 hours of their days collecting firewood and creating fires to cook and heat their homes. Now, with the biogas units installed, women no longer need to forage for firewood and can easily and efficiently source fuel. This means more free time to put towards educating themselves at Mbegani’s business incubators and improving their literacy- and when women are educated and empowered, entire communities are elevated. Children also are often confined to domestic chores to help their families and, just like the women of Mbegani, were facing hours of foraging for firewood and breathing in huge quantities of smoke. Biogas provides families with clean and efficient fuel which will improve the health and general quality of life for women and children by freeing children from their more arduous chores and letting them use the three hours they previously spent collecting firewood, now learning and playing.