Khainza sells affordable, recyclable biogas cylinders to families and communities by including young people, farmers and women in the process of making the biogas and distributing small gas cook stoves.
Uganda's Khainza Energy Is Weathering Covid-19 and Saving Lives
About three billion people in developing countries rely on firewood or charcoal for their daily cooking purposes, contributing to the death of 4.3 million people annually from smoke inhalation, including 500,000 children under the age of five. A small business in Uganda is addressing those problems, determined to save lives, trees and soil fertility, while creating jobs and reducing emissions of greenhouse gases.
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Uganda: Clean Cooking - Mother's Illness Inspires Young Engineer's Business
allAfrica, 15 July 2020
Arthur Woniala was in his last year of university, studying mechanical engineering, when his mother developed severe respiratory disease, after years of being exposed to smoke from… Read more »
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How Khainza Energy is Coping with COVID 19 in Uganda
- Publisher:
- Khainza Energy
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- 6 April 2020
The Coronavirus COVID-19 has left many Ugandans stuck at home, with little or no access to basic services. Khainza Energy is committed to ensuring ... see more »
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Ugandan engineer and innovator Arthur Woniala is passionate about people, entrepreneurship and sustainable solutions to everyday challenges. In 2007 with the help of two friends, ... Read more »
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The Turkana area of northern Kenya, a county bordering South Sudan, Uganda and Ethiopia, is known as the cradle of humanity and for Lake Turkana, the largest desert lake in the ... Read more »
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Joyce Kamande and Samuel Rigu, who met at university, are using their childhood experiences on small, struggling farms to help other rural farmers. They have built Safi Organics, a ... Read more »
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Two young scientists and entrepreneurs in West Africa show how ambition and determination - and a little support - can transform plastic waste into jobs, education and hope for ... Read more »
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Nigeria's Lagos State Employment Trust Fund (LSETF) and the United States African Development Foundation (USADF) have launched a five-year partnership to address youth unemployment ... Read more »
