Solar Sister
Company overview
Website:
solarsister.org
Headquarters: United States of America
Countries of Operations: Tanzania, Nigeria, Uganda
Women owned /led: Founded by at least one woman, At least 51% owned by women, At least 30% women in senior leadership positions, At least 30% of women in board of directors
Year of founding: 2010
Number of FTEs
: >100 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:
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
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.
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
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
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