As one suffers an insufficient and unreliable energy supply as well as a growing dependency on fossil energy resources in Sierra Leone, an alternative way to provide energy, a main key in development is necessary.

Therefore Safer Future with the support of the Austrian government is about to implement a so called “Competence Centre for Renewable Energies”, a kind of research and education centre to identify and develop locally adopted applications of renewable energy sources to realize an independent, decentralised and clean energy supply.

The main output of this innovative project is 10 female and 10 male technicians, educated in the application and dissemination of such technologies including Solar Photovoltaic and Biomass/Biogas. The 9 months training which is based on the former “Rural Electronics Workshop (REW)” in Nyangba Town, Koya Rural District, will start in September 2007.

Actually Safer Future is enlarging the training centre at Nyangba Town in constructing additional student and staff dormitories (see pictures below). Beside this activity the teaching staff has already begun researches in the field of Biomass/Biogas and started a test biogas – tank fed with pig waste (see pictures below).