Sustainability is a key issue for any serious humanitarian project. Starting development work without making sure that the project is sustainable is a shot in the dark: all the money and time invested may ultimately not make any difference and can even sometimes even do much harm.

The Lokhim Biogas Project is sustainable:

• Practically: one biogas unit is a lasting improvement of a family's life. It provides light and cooking energy. The lifetime of such units lasts several generations. Moreover, through the Lokhim Biogas Program, families are trained to maintain their unit.
• Socially: the project has the full enthusiastic support of the villagers. Candidate families believe enough in the project to collect 5 tons of construction material and contract a microcredit that represents for them 5 years of savings.
• Financially: microcredit makes the project self-powered and self-amplified because the money refunded by candidate families is used to help other families.
• Politically: the project is consistent with the guidelines of the government-operated Biogas Support Program and complements its action.

The consequences of the project are sustainable as well. Indeed, it does not merely develop, rather it trully improves the life of the villagers. Read more about the impact of this project on user families, on the community and on the environment.