This project also has positive impacts on the community. First of all, it strengthens solidarity links in the village. Indeed, it is villagers from Lokhim who voluntarily take a training to learn how to organize the construction and build biogas units and, when they are back in the village, provide voluntarily their time and skills to help families build their biogas plant.

Moreover, biogas has another indirect positive consequence. Since waste and fecal material is increasingly confined (and used for the production of gas) in biogas plants, it reduces the risk to spread life-treatening diseases such as ameba and guardia parasites, which infest water streams in Lokhim's region.

Finally, the greater availability of biogas reduces the number of trees cut for firewood. Lately, the scarcity of trees on Solukhumbu's slopes has caused many landslides, often cutting trails (that need important work to be rebuilt) and sometimes destroying houses and killing people. This program contributes to halt and hopefully soon reverse this trend by helping the forests nearby Lokhim to regenerate themselves.