Bio-gas for every Household in Sherpa-Mude, Nepal

After a very successful project by the Namaste Foundation, supported by Moments of Joy, where electricity has been provided to a few small villages in the neighbourhood of Mude, a town in a mountainous area east of Kathmandu, we have a new project: A Bio-gas installation for every household in Mude.

In Each household, with an average number of family members of 6, uses approx. 280 kilo of wood every month. Should one wish to use warm water to wash, one can add an extra number of kilo's to that amount. This wood is found in the local forest and one needs a permit from the government these days to collect this wood. People in the village fully understand the consequences and the effect of this forestry the erosion, deforestation etc. it causes. Buying gas canisters is not an option as they are only on sale in Kathmandu and they would take 4 to 5 days to transport these cannisters to the village. It is also rather expensive. The most effective solution would be to install a bio-gas installation in every house. Every household has cattle and toilets and there is enough excrement to make bio-gas to cook on. The sludge can also be used as compost on their crops. The bio-gas installation does not come very cheap. Cost per household are € 429,-- of which € 10,-- will be put down by the owner of the house. To start off this project 8 families have signed up for this project. The understanding is that after this initial "trial" project the rest of the villages will follow. It does not mean that no wood will be used but it will bring the volumes down by a huge numbers.