Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Emerging Cooking Solutions is a for-profit company that manufactures and distributes SupaMoto® clean-burning stoves and biomass cooking fuel for low-income urban families and businesses in Zambia. The company’s products have not only helped reduce the care work undertaken by women in fuel collection but also reduced the fuel cost associated with cooking. Since 2013, the company has reached 20,000 households. For every 2 households that switch from charcoal to pellets, the savings in carbon emissions is 8 tonnes per year.

Activities in the care economy:
Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products

Stage of growth: Mass roll-out/Expansion

Type of services: Labour Domestic services

Number of customers (2020): Between 5,000 to 25,000

Number of customers (2019): Between 5,000 to 25,000

Number of customers (2018): Between 5,000 to 25,000

Financials

Profitability status:
Not profitable yet but planning to become profitable within 3 years

Revenue USD (2020): Between 500,000 to 1 million

Revenue USD (2019): Between 500,000 to 1 million

Revenue USD (2018): Between 250,000 to 500,000

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed:
Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Reduce

Populations affected: Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers, Infants or children, Elderly people, Persons with special needs or with illnesses

Number of people served (2020): Between 5,000 to 25,000

Number of people served (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000

Number of people served (2019): Less than 1,000