The power of poo: How biogas has become a cleaner alternative fuel in Rwanda — but is still out of reach for most
Nearly half of Rwandans live in poverty, relying on small-scale farming for survival and without gas or electricity. With so many people spending hours foraging for wood for cooking and light, often damaging their eyes, lungs, forests and the atmosphere, a little inventiveness helps. Enter cows and pigs — not just as a source of food but also for the heat needed to cook them.
There's no cost, complicated instructions or unpleasant scent in operating the clean, blue biogas flame, and whatever manure the system does not use can be utilized as extra fertilizer. Despite its advantages, adopting biogas in Rwanda has been slow; there are about 11,000 digesters in the nation’s prisons, schools and homes. The obstacles include having enough waste and access to water to fuel digesters, unfamiliarity with the technology and a shortage of skilled maintenance personnel.
All of this to say that despite growing biogas use worldwide over the past two decades, biogas for fuel is still a young concept in Rwanda.Photographs and reportage for this project were supported by a fellowship from the International Women's Media Foundation.Read more from Yahoo News:
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