Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Tierra Grata is a social enterprise that provides access to clean energy, drinking water, and safe sanitation. They design solutions adjusted to rural contexts accompanied by a social intervention process. Tierra Grata’s mission is to accelerate the productivity and economic growth of rural families through access to basic services. They expect to contribute to time reduction in care work and the redistribution of domestic activities to third parties.

Activities in the care economy:
Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and products (e.g. product that makes washing, cooking more efficient)

Stage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage

Type of services: Labour saving solutions

Number of customers (2020): 5K- less than 25K

Number of customers (2019): Less than 1K

Number of customers (2018): 1K – less than 5K

Financials

Profitability status: Financially profitable

Revenue USD (2020): 50K- less than 100K

Revenue USD (2019): 10K- less than 50K

Revenue USD (2018): 10K- less than 50K

Pathways to impact

Challenge addressed:
Lack of affordable solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work (Reduce), Limited redistribution of care and domestic work to other actors in the care economy (Redistribute)

Pathway to impact – 4 Rs: Reduce

Populations affected: Unpaid care workers, Paid care workers, Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers

Number of people served (2020): 5K- less than 25K

Number of people served (2019): Less than 1K

Number of people served (2018): 1K – less than 5K