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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