Case Studies
Supporting an Orphan Home Through Fresh Produces
Kenya
Garbage Management Problems
Kenya is located in East Africa, right on the equator and has a warm and dry climate.
EM Technologies, an investing company of EM Research Organization is located in a town called Embu which is northeast of the capital Nairobi.
There are disposal sites for garbage in Embu town, however, people often do not discard trash on the collection places and even they do gather their garbage, often nobody comes to collect them. Therefore, there are garbage everywhere in the town and this is causing health and environmental problems.
Especially, the vegetable market in town produces a large amount of vegetable wastes and this was causing malodors.
EM Technologies, an investing company of EM Research Organization is located in a town called Embu which is northeast of the capital Nairobi.
There are disposal sites for garbage in Embu town, however, people often do not discard trash on the collection places and even they do gather their garbage, often nobody comes to collect them. Therefore, there are garbage everywhere in the town and this is causing health and environmental problems.
Especially, the vegetable market in town produces a large amount of vegetable wastes and this was causing malodors.
Recycling Waste and Solve Hygienic Problems
Currently, a Japanese Funded NGO, African Children Education Fund (ACEF) collects these vegetable wastes twice a week. (ACEF’s activities includes providing education and medical support, spreading organic farming and protecting the environment.)
Vendors at the market are happy to keep the market clean so they actively cooperate to collect vegetable wastes.
Vendors at the market are happy to keep the market clean so they actively cooperate to collect vegetable wastes.
Growing Safe Vegetables and Fruits
Since 2016, EM Technologies operates a model farm where they grow vegetables such as kale and spinach and fruits such as banana.
EM Technologies takes the vegetable wastes collected by the NGO and compost them with EM and use the finished compost at this model farm.
This farm also ferment livestock excretion with EM and use these as fertilizer.
EM Technologies takes the vegetable wastes collected by the NGO and compost them with EM and use the finished compost at this model farm.
This farm also ferment livestock excretion with EM and use these as fertilizer.
Contribution to an Orphan Home
Also since 2016, EM Technologies donates EM vegetables and EM fruits grown on their model farm to Jump & Smile Centre, an AIDS orphan home established by ACEF. Currently, 30 children who lost their parents with HIV are living in this Center. Among them, 5 children are born with HIV and taking medicine and drinking EM drink.
Jump & Smile Center is located about an hour drive from EM Technologies in an arid region. It is difficult to grow vegetables and fruits in this region, so beans are their main diet. Therefore, the children are always very happy to have fresh EM vegetables and EM fruits. EM Technologies also provides Activated EM to this Center, which they use it for cleaning and to suppress unpleasant odors from toilets.
Jump & Smile Center is located about an hour drive from EM Technologies in an arid region. It is difficult to grow vegetables and fruits in this region, so beans are their main diet. Therefore, the children are always very happy to have fresh EM vegetables and EM fruits. EM Technologies also provides Activated EM to this Center, which they use it for cleaning and to suppress unpleasant odors from toilets.
Even though it is difficult to grow vegetables and fruits here, recently, Smile & Jump center started farming using EM. Using Activated EM provided by EM Technologies, they are growing Kale, Mango, etc. Also, they started raising cows for fresh milk and chickens for fresh eggs.
Using vegetable wastes, which were causing environmental pollutions and EM, ACEF and EM Technologies are trying to create a sustainable cyclic farming.
(as of July, 2018)
(as of July, 2018)
Additional Note
The vegetable waste collected in the market is transferred to a nearby jail, and is used to grow vegetables within the jail for the prisoners to eat. In the jail, they use Activated EM･1 to turn the vegetable waste into fertilizers. Further, the prisoners learn the techniques of EM farming, so that they can start farming after they come out of the jail.
ACEF and EM Technologies keep making fertilizer from lawn residue and farm animals’ night soil, as well as keep trying to generate more farmers engaged in cyclic farming.
(as of January, 2020)
For further information, please contact our partner in Kenya:
Effective Microorganisms Technologies Limited
P.O. Box 1365 - 60100 Embu, Kenya
TEL: +254-719-807-149
FAX: +254-68-41074
E-mail: emtechkenya@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EM-Technologies-Limited-Kenya-1627631054190802/?fref=nf
ACEF and EM Technologies keep making fertilizer from lawn residue and farm animals’ night soil, as well as keep trying to generate more farmers engaged in cyclic farming.
(as of January, 2020)
For further information, please contact our partner in Kenya:
Effective Microorganisms Technologies Limited
P.O. Box 1365 - 60100 Embu, Kenya
TEL: +254-719-807-149
FAX: +254-68-41074
E-mail: emtechkenya@gmail.com
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/EM-Technologies-Limited-Kenya-1627631054190802/?fref=nf
