Care economy activities and business model
Company overview
Headquarters: Kenya
Countries of Operations: Kenya
Women owned /led: At least 51% owned by women
Year of founding: 2019
Number of FTEs : 5 to 20 FTEs
Legal status of the organization : For-profit
Usafi Green Energy Limited is a for-profit company that manufactures and distributes cookstoves and biomass briquettes in Kenya. Usafi briquettes are of high carolific value and high heat content therefore make it more viable for household, industrial and institutional use as a fuel. It reduces care work by saving cost and energy. Through the use of the enterprise's renewable energy products 3 out of 10 trees have been saved and over 4200 households are using the product.
Activities in the care economy: Provision of affordable time and labour saving technology and productsStage of growth: Small scale roll-out/Early stage
Type of services: Labour saving solutions
Number of customers (2020): Between 5,000 to 25,000
Number of customers (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000
Number of customers (2018): Between 1,000 to 5,000
Type of services: Labour saving solutions
Number of customers (2020): Between 5,000 to 25,000
Number of customers (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000
Number of customers (2018): Between 1,000 to 5,000
Financials
Profitability status: Not profitable yet but planning to become profitable within 3 yearsRevenue USD (2020): Between 10,000 to 50,000
Revenue USD (2019): Between 10,000 to 50,001
Revenue USD (2018): Between 10,000 to 50,002
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): Between 5,000 to 25,000
Number of people served (2019): Between 1,000 to 5,000
Number of people served (2018): Between 1,000 to 5,000
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