"My name is Jackson Kaondo. I am a farmer and I have known of ECHO since 2018 through a visit to another farmer, Julius, in my village.

I was inspired by the way Julius was benefiting from his bio-digester. In 2018, I managed to construct my own bio-digester through ECHO training. From that time my family has been enjoying use of the clean energy from the bio-digester. However, a few months ago I started experiencing reduced production of gas and didn’t know the reasons. ECHO’s Technician Herry Charles visited me and when I explained the problem, he performed several tests. He realized that the digester volume had significantly reduced due to the pushing in of soil against the tubular wall. We then decided to work together to remove the soil around the tubular walls and strengthen the bio-digester walls using sand bags.”

A few weeks later, ECHO East Africa staff visited Mr. Kaondo’s family again. He shared a testimony that just a few days after the repair of his biodigester, production of biogas increased to its original capacity and he has not experienced the problem again.