In 2013, President Barack Obama launched an activity called the Power Africa Program. Its goal is to increase the availability(可用性) of electric power in African countries south of the Sahara Desert. Millions of people there are unable to use electric power.
The American-supported program is providing money for a number of projects, including one that creates electricity from human waste.
"Mukuru Kwa Njenga" is the name of a community close to Nairobi (内罗毕) where about 100,000 people live. Many of them are poor. Until recently, most did not have electricity.
Amos Nguru had the idea for Afrisol Energy, a project that produces electricity from human waste. Two years ago, Mr. Nguru received an offer of support from the Power Africa Program. The money came from General Electric and the United States African Development Foundation.
The project now produces 15 kilowatts(千瓦) of electricity. That is enough to power a nearby school and serve the local neighborhood. Mr. Nguru says his project meets the needs of the community.
Deborah Mwandagina is deputy head teacher(副校长) of the local primary school. She says in the past, there were too many illegal connections to her school's power supply. She says this resulted in higher costs for the school, so it decided to stop using electricity.
But now the school is once again using electricity from Afrisol Energy. Doreen Kemunto is a student at the school. Her mother Beatrice Onchan'ga says darkness no longer limits the time when Doreen can study.
She says, "Before the electricity was there, our children could not be able to learn since they could not come to school that early and leave that late because the school was very dark, and they could not be able to learn."
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