When we talk we do it. Our aim is to bring change to the community. Education is useless if it can not benefit man and woman on this earth.
The system you see in this picture on the left is a biogas plant.
The plant uses cow dung to produce methane which is used for cooking.
The plant supplies three kitchens. The Mdhlanga's can sigh for relief; no more long distances to fetch for firewood.All they do is open a gate valve and light a match.
This was done with funding from the Malawi British High Commision. Eleven other plants are to be constructed in the Choma-Chigwere area.
The objective of the project is to mitigate climate change through promotion of biogas from cow dung.
The use of biogas will reduce deforestation thereby saving the trees and other fuel vegetation which are carbon sinks.
At the same time, the project will reduce the emissionof methane(21 times stronger than Carbon Dioxide in causing global warming) from cow dung into the atmosphere. When metahne is burnt by the beneficiaries as they comfortably cook in their kitchens, the products are water and carbon dioxide( Carbon Dioxide is used by the plants in the process of photosynthesis). Thus the emissions are reduced.
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