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SOLID WASTE, HAZARDOUS AND TOXIC WASTE MANAGEMENT.
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MWAMKO MPYA PROJECT.
Mwamko Mpya project funded by Comic Relief seeks to improve the quality of life for communities at Kaptembwo and Rhonda.
The goal of the project is to reach total sanitation coverage in the low income settlements, thereby eliminating Open Defecation and change towards improved hygiene practices both at the schools and at household levels.
The Bio Center is a project done together with Umande Trust and Practical Action.
The Bio Center has a conference room on the first floor and on the ground floor it has toilets whereby the human waste is collected.
Imagine eating food that was cooked using natural gas generated from your own human waste.
The collected Feces is then converted into combustible "biogas," or methane gas that can be used for cooking. It has reduced by 60 percent the annual wood-fuel costs.
Prior to the construction of bio center, some human waste was being thrown down the hill, near natural bodies of water such as Lake Nakuru.
The process requires putting a given amount of human or other animal waste into a "digester," which ferments it using bacteria to release methane gas that can be captured and then burned as fuel.
While waste smells bad initially, the biogas that is produced has no foul odor.
Once the methane is produced, the remaining waste can be used as an odor-free fertilizer.
This project has also improved people's lifestyle and living standards by giving them loans to build good houses. the project has sensitized the importance of harvesting rainwater.
GILANI COMMUNITY WATER PROJECT.
Practical Action together with NAWASCO (Nakuru Water and Sanitation Company) started a community water based project to ensure the people in the informal settlement of Nakuru access safe and clean water for life.
This project has decentralized water service delivery through the delegated management model for water provision in partnership with NAWASCO.
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MWAMKO MPYA PROJECT.
Mwamko Mpya project funded by Comic Relief seeks to improve the quality of life for communities at Kaptembwo and Rhonda.
The goal of the project is to reach total sanitation coverage in the low income settlements, thereby eliminating Open Defecation and change towards improved hygiene practices both at the schools and at household levels.
The Bio Center is a project done together with Umande Trust and Practical Action.
The Bio Center has a conference room on the first floor and on the ground floor it has toilets whereby the human waste is collected.
Imagine eating food that was cooked using natural gas generated from your own human waste.
The collected Feces is then converted into combustible "biogas," or methane gas that can be used for cooking. It has reduced by 60 percent the annual wood-fuel costs.
Prior to the construction of bio center, some human waste was being thrown down the hill, near natural bodies of water such as Lake Nakuru.
The process requires putting a given amount of human or other animal waste into a "digester," which ferments it using bacteria to release methane gas that can be captured and then burned as fuel.
While waste smells bad initially, the biogas that is produced has no foul odor.
Once the methane is produced, the remaining waste can be used as an odor-free fertilizer.
This project has also improved people's lifestyle and living standards by giving them loans to build good houses. the project has sensitized the importance of harvesting rainwater.
GILANI COMMUNITY WATER PROJECT.
Practical Action together with NAWASCO (Nakuru Water and Sanitation Company) started a community water based project to ensure the people in the informal settlement of Nakuru access safe and clean water for life.
This project has decentralized water service delivery through the delegated management model for water provision in partnership with NAWASCO.
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