EFFICIENT COOKING APPLIANCES REPLACES FIREWOOD USAGE BY SAVING KENYAN HOUSEHOLDS

Efficient cooking appliances replaces usage of firewood by saving Kenyan households. PHOTO/ CORRESPONDENT

Efficient cooking appliances replaces usage of firewood by saving Kenyan households.

By Correspondent

An innovation by BURN saved Kenyan

households an average of KES 18,000

($158) per year on wood, according to an

impact survey by Yunus Social Business

Kenya (YSB) Impact Survey.

Burn has sold 1.4 million stoves and has

reached over 4.9 million people, who

have used the stoves and have

significantly reduced 6.4 million tons

of CO2 and 3.6 million tons of firewood

saved. It is a Kenyan based social

business which designs, manufactures and

distributes a range of Super fuel-

efficient cooking appliances which

include charcoal (Jikokoa classic,

Jikokoa Xtra, Jikokoa Pro), wood and

briquet (Kuniokoa, Turbo, Turbo Pro, Pro

100-300), electric (ECOA electric

pressure cooker), and LPG (ECOA LPG).

“Our study has revealed very encouraging

findings on how this kind of climate-

friendly innovation can simplify cooking

for households, especially the low-

income earners by saving them money on

energy sources. I’m happy that as a

social business, Burn has been able to

deliver sustainable solutions that

provide a cushion to economic strain by

many people while enabling them to enjoy

the transformative power of innovation.

Importantly, Burn has also proved that

local manufacturing can deliver a great

quality product and create hundreds of

jobs,” said Susan Ngalawa, Yunus Social

Business Investment Director – Kenya.

The study further identified additional

benefits to customers using some of the

Burn cooking products including wood

expenditure savings, time spent cooking

and tending, safety, durability, ease of

use, smoke reduction and income

generation opportunities.

“We are delighted that the Yunus Social

Business findings aligned with what we

had always believed – super fuel-

efficient wood stoves have a

transformational impact, not just on

deforestation and indoor air pollution,

but also on poverty alleviation,” said

Burn Founder and CEO.

Burn launched its first full

manufacturing facility in Ruiru, Kenya

in 2014 and is the only vertically

integrated modern cookstove company in

Sub-Saharan Africa. It has a capacity of

45,000 stoves per month and has created

over 400 jobs since its inception.

YSB was co-founded 10 year ago, this

June, by Nobel Peace Laureate Prof

Muhammad Yunus and supports social

businesses, such as BURN, across the

world to solve the world’s most pressing

problems. It opened a Kenyan office in

late 2018.

Yunus Social Business (YSB) believes in

the power of business to end poverty, a

model pioneered by our co-founder, Nobel

Peace Prize Laureate Prof. Muhammad

Yunus. YSB has supported or invested in

more than 2000 social entrepreneurs

worldwide to build meaningful social

businesses in agriculture, health,

education, mobility, clean water, and

energy. They also accelerate the

transformation of corporations into net

‘people and planet’ positive businesses

by applying their core competencies to

some of the greatest human challenges.

Founded in 2011, YSB has headquarters in

Berlin and is led by co-founder and CEO

Saskia Bruysten.

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