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PROJECT DESCRIPTION

Africa's Gift work with communities in central, east & southern Africa reducing tons of CO2 being released & fatal smoke being ingested by introducing a heat retention cooking bag. The Wonderbag (UN. CDM cert) transforms the cook's week, uses a fraction of the wood & water traditional cooking methods use & saves over 1 ton of CO2 a year. We seek a partner who wishes to offset & sequestrate their CO2 by transforming THEIR Wonderbag enabled cooks into tree planters, nurturers & habitat custodians

Beneficiaries

  • Children / Young People

    Community members currently trapped in the drudgery of cutting & carrying wood & harvesting of water & young girls unable to go to school as they must cook the daily meal. They now become free of time poverty & attend school & thrive!

  • Environment

    Huge amounts of wood are burned each day to keep traditional open fires boiling away litres & litres of water every meal time. Cooking with the heat retention cooking bag 80% of water & 75% of wood is saved. 1.6 tons of CO2 saved per bag per year.

  • Environment

    With much less demand for fuel wood & the cessation of aggressive harvesting habitats stabilize & rehabilitate when the poacher turns game keeper & the ladies are rewarded to become tree planters & stewards! See our Trees4Africa project!

  • The General Public / Mankind

    In 2020 a staggering 3 billion people cook on an open fire every day. Inhaling the smoke from cooking the daily meal is hugely hazardous, it kills a person every 20 seconds & smoke is the biggest cause of blindness. Wonderbags reduce smoke amazingly

  • Reach of your work

    The power of this work is that it is scalable & restorative.

Geographic reach

  • Uganda
BENEFICIARIES REACHED ANNUALLY

10000

By training the trainers this becomes scalable limited by £.

SIZE OF PROJECT PER ANNUM

£50,000.00

TIMELINE

Nov 2020 Onwards

Project Outcome Targets

Transform destructive, depressing & harmful weeks into restorative enterprises with self reliance.

Reduce the inhalation of fatal smoke & exposure of the eyes by dramatically reducing cooking fires.

Reduce the loss of trees/shrub cover, prevent soil erosion & plant to habilitate & grow fruit trees.

Project Activities

  • We fund raise to buy Wonderbags so that the purchase price in community is accessible & valued.

  • We do cook demos to help with our fund raising (ask us for one!) & in Africa as doing is learning!

  • The Wonderbags are a registered carbon offset so we share to companies with confidence how both win!

  • Freed of time poverty we work with cooks to harness their entrepreneurial skills making crafts.

  • Freed of time poverty we work with cooks planting trees, restoring habitats & growing food for home.

Project Impact and Partners
IMPACT REPORTING

Bi-annually

March 2021

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS
UN SDG 2: Zero Hunger UN SDG 1: No Poverty UN SDG 4: Quality Education UN SDG 3: Good Health and Well-being UN SDG 5: Gender Equality UN SDG 7: Affordable and Clean Energy UN SDG 8: Decent Work and Economic Growth UN SDG 10: Reduced Inequality UN SDG 12: Responsible Consumption and Production UN SDG 13: Climate Action UN SDG 15: Life on Land
How we monitor the quality and results of our work

reporting

WHO IS ALREADY FUNDING THE PROJECT?

Kenneth Dunn

We are a membership organization so get regular donations in addition to public responses to appeals
OTHER PARTNERS

Sheffield Hallam University

We work closely with SHU assessing the impact of the work carrying out detailed surveys & interviews