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From classroom to clean energy: Siaya teacher’s ethanol breakthrough

A science experiment in a village has evolved to help reduce energy poverty, environmental degradation and unemployment

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by FAITH MATETE

Big-read15 July 2025 - 07:57
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Richard Arwa at the distillery at Car Wash area in Kisumu City /FAITH MATETE

In the quiet rural village of Sidindi in Siaya county, what began as a simple classroom science experiment has evolved into a groundbreaking solution to reduce energy poverty, environmental degradation and unemployment.

It was in 2016, inside a modest laboratory at Mudhiora Secondary School, that chemistry teacher Richard Arwa, who is passionate about innovation, first noticed the damage potential of a local menace.

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