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Social enterprises driving global change on World Food Day

Every year on 16 October, World Food Day highlights important topics such as food waste, sustainable agriculture, biodiversity, and the challenges faced by fishing communities — all in an effort to combat climate change. This year's theme is "Hand in Hand for Better Foods and a Better Future”. It's the perfect opportunity for us to shine a spotlight on the incredible efforts of social entrepreneurs, who are making everyday life better for so many people and how they're creating a more sustainable and inclusive world.

Ecobora

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ECOBORA have developed a clean, affordable cookstove that helps marginalized schools reduce cooking costs

Worldwide many schools are still using firewood to cook their students meals. Using these expensive and smoky firewood boilers causes schools to spend more money than they want to on energy costs. Money that can be better spent on improving education and healthcare.

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Location
Kenya

Programme
East Africa Accelerator 2021
in partnership with  Acumen  

Website
www.ecobora.co
ECOBORA have developed a clean, affordable solar cookstove that is being used by rural and peri-urban schools. This provides marginalized communities access to clean cooking energy through fuel-efficient biomass technologies. Ecobora provides energy solutions for schools and communities while reducing reliance on firewood.

The enterprise is saving marginalized schools 100% of cooking cost money that can now be invested to further improve the quality of education and healthcare for children. To date over 123 rural schools in Nyamira now use ECOBORA's solar stoves which have enabled them to save $9920 per year per school.

In total, more than 85,000 students have been able to access meals in schools and reduced the school dropout rates in these schools by 75%. The money the school saves has been used to build 6 libraries, 13 computer labs and directed towards improving the education of the students.