Ponaa Briquettes
Company overview
Website:
ponaabriquettes.com
Headquarters: Ghana
Countries of Operations: Ghana
Women owned /led: Founded by at least one woman
Year of founding: 2017
Number of FTEs
: 5 to 20 FTEs
Legal status of the organization
: For-profit
Company overview
Website: www.lavanderiapp.io
Headquarters: Mexico
Countries of Operations: Mexico
Legal status of the organization
: For-profit
Year of founding: 2018
Number of FTEs
: 5 to 20 FTEs
Women owned / led: Founder
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
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
Stage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
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
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
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
Number of people served (2019): Information not available
Number of people served (2018): Information not available