Kweku Anno, Date of Birth

    

Kweku Anno

Inventor, Engineer

Date of Birth: 05-Jan-1955

Profession: priest, engineer

Nationality: Ghana

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn


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About Kweku Anno

  • Kweku Anno is a Ghanaian engineer and inventor who has worked on reducing organic waste pollution in Ghana. In 2004, Kweku Anno began experiments with a "digester box" vermifilter that uses earthworms for decomposing fecal material, similar to vermifilters being produced in Australia and New Zealand, but using a porous concrete filter (PCF) as the filtration substrate.
  • As of 2006, he was selling Biofil Digesters.
  • In 2008 he launched his current company, Biological Filters and Composters, Ltd (Biofilcom).
  • As of July 2013, his company had installed over 4,000 Biofil Digesters.In 2014 the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation gave a grant to scale up the construction of the biofil toilets that Anno had invented.Anno holds a BS in mechanical engineering from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology and began his career working for Volta Aluminium Company then State Construction, before launching his own engineering company.
  • He is currently the managing director of K.
  • A.
  • Anno Engineering Ltd.
  • and of Biological Filters and Composters Ltd. Anno is a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (LDS Church) and has served as a counselor in the presidency of the Accra Ghana Lartebiokorshie Stake and as bishop of the Odorkor 1st Ward.

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