Jiko BioGas

@JikoBioGas is a clean energy project I started in Jowhar, Somalia 5 years ago. It converts animal waste into clean cooking fuel and fertilizer. The project aims to help displaced women in Jowhar Hirshabelle by eliminating the need to gather firewood, reducing their risk of sexual violence and respotory diseases. The project also creates job opportunities through selling the fertilizers produced. While the project is expensive, I hope that smart NGOs will invest in these tangible projects. We have similar project in Mogadishu area.

Somebody said clean biogas is not powerful enough for cooking- well here is evidence this family Mogadishu is getting free biogas from daily kitchen waste vs depending on expensive imported LPG😁

Lower Shabelle farmers investing #solar irrigation well pumps as insurance against food insecurity and #climatechange to irrigate their farms during droughts (when Shabelle river is dry 6 months). @PowerOffGrid & partners installed 27 kW solar pump. #ClimateAction in Somalia.

#SaturdayMotivation @PowerOffGrid installed 2.5k #Kakud solar irrigation pump system for Jowhar farmers -the highly efficient solar pump could pump 120,000 L/hr to meet water requirements of 4 Hectares saving the $40k/yr fuel cost. #smartfarming in #Hirshabelle Somalia

@dwnews documentation: In #Hirshabelle region Somalia, @JikoBioGas is locally producing fertilizers and #biogas for clean cooking to end charcoal and cutting trees, creating jobs for internally displaced women and move them from vulnerable to self-reliant dw.com/en/somalia-biogas-for…

Somalia has free animal waste that can be converted to free #biogas- yet we are importing expensive LPG that cost $28 for 6kg cylinder.