Care economy activities and business model

About the organization:
Solar Sister is a social enterprise that empowers women with economic opportunity and clean energy in Tanzania and Nigeria. It recruits, trains and supports women entrepreneurs to build business around clean energy. It reduces care work through increased access to cookstoves and solar lighting products in communities dependent on poor quality fuel. Solar Sister has reached out to over 3 million people in Africa with solar energy and cookstoves and kickstarted 6,690 entrepreneurs.

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 saving solutions

Number of customers (2020): Information not available

Number of customers (2019): Information not available

Number of customers (2018): Information not available

Financials

Profitability status: 0

Revenue USD (2020): Information not available

Revenue USD (2019): Over 1 million

Revenue USD (2018): Over 1 million

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

Number of people served (2020): Information not available

Number of people served (2019): Information not available

Number of people served (2018): Information not available