Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Ponaa Briquettes is a for-profit social enterprise that provides clean cooking solutions in Ghana. The company recycles agricultural waste such as rice husks into clean smokeless charcoal briquette as alternative to wood fuel for cooking. It offers affordable cooking solutions to reduce amount of time spent on care and domestic work. Additionaly, the business model supports waste management by converting bio-waste into valuable household fuel. Every year the enterprise recycles 10,000 tones of rice husk into briquettes

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

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

Type of services: Labour saving solutions

Number of customers (2020): Information not available

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Financials

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

Revenue USD (2020): Information not available

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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 care workers, Paid care workers, Unpaid domestic workers, Paid domestic workers

Number of people served (2020): Information not available

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Number of people served (2018): Information not available