For Giving Tuesday -- Give the Gift of Sunshine: Solavore''s Indiegogo Campaign Funds the Distribution of Solar Ovens in India, Cambodia and Kenya
Social Enterprise Announces Solavore Works Program for Developing Countries
(firmenpresse) - ST. PAUL, MN -- (Marketwired) -- 11/30/15 -- , a women-owned social enterprise committed to the manufacture and global distribution of 100% , announced that in honor of Giving Tuesday, it is expanding its ongoing Indiegogo campaign to offer for a limited time a special price of $145 (45% off its retail price ) to donate one Solavore Sport solar oven to their programs in India, Cambodia or Kenya. Solavore launched its campaign last Monday with a goal of $40,000 and has raised almost $5,000 to date. The funds will be used to initiate a program called that distributes solar ovens to individual families in India, Cambodia and Kenya. Nearly 3 billion families today cook on indoor open fires, resulting in respiratory disease and climate-altering deforestation.
Founded by former tech industry senior operations executive, Anne Patterson, ™ is the manufacturer of the Sport solar oven, a 100% renewable energy solar oven. Every solar oven purchased helps to fund a somewhere in the world where an open fire is still the main kitchen appliance. Solavore Works is Solavore''s corporate social responsibility program that supports projects in the developing world. The benefits that Solavore Works brings to communities in the developing world include:
Respiratory health: freedom from common diseases such as pneumonia, which kills more women and children each year than malaria or AIDS
The removal of one of the main causes of deforestation in the developing world
Savings in energy expenditures, which can range up to 25-50% of a family''s budget
Water pasteurization and food dehydration
The ability for girls to attend school rather than spend their days collecting firewood with their mothers
Increased income generation, enabling a woman to sell the food that she bakes or dehydrates in her solar oven
"As a , our approach to poverty reduction is more in terms of enabling opportunity and less in terms of aid," said Anne Patterson, CEO of Solavore. "Not just a source of clean food, we expect these ovens to help their owners develop goods to sell in the marketplace, and local assembly of ovens creates jobs as does the sales, distribution, and support of new ovens."
The Solavore Sport is a virtually indestructible, retained-heat box-type solar oven made of rugged, durable, lightweight injection-molded nylon resin. Surround insulation and two-pot capacity enable unattended, family-size year-round cooking. The included water pasteurization indicator adds clean water to the Sport''s versatility, along with slow-cooking, baking, and dehydrating. The Sport solar oven is an industry leader in price, performance, family-size capacity and rugged durability. The solar oven, in conjunction with a small, efficient wood burning stove when sunlight is not available, can reduce a family''s fuel consumption up to 80%.
The campaign''s featured ongoing perk is BOGO -- Solavore Sport for your family, to a family in a Solavore Works program. In addition to this, a collection of perks carrying the outdoors, solar, travel themes include:
100% Silk Scarf from Cambodia
Nick Brandt (Big Life) photo book, signed copy
Secrid Mini Wallet (contributed by SportiqueSF)
Fjallraven Backpack (contributed by SportiqueSF)
Silicone Solavore trivets/pot-lifters
"I''m a Solavore BAGGU" re-usable grocery bag
USB Recharger contributed by GoalZero
Kristin Laing Designs Solavore necklace
Nomad Portable Solar Panel contributed by GoalZero
1 week yoga retreat in Culebra, PR
ThermoTent TT3 by ThermoTents
Nightswapping.com: One Level-4 Standard Night
Solavore CEO Anne Patterson cooks for your social or corporate event
Via profits from the sale of the Sport in the developed world, Solavore aims to empower women through "caring capitalism". Solavore will direct the funds from this Indiegogo campaign to Solavore Works'' developing country programs which will expand to develop micro-loans and other consumer finance programs.
Solavore is a women-owned social enterprise whose mission is to promote clean-cooking technology around the world. The Solavore Sport oven was purpose-built by solar energy executives from 3M Corp. and University of Arizona for maximum efficiency, durability and ease of use. Solavore pledges to use its profits to remain independent and self- sustaining while providing clean cooking alternatives to the world''s 3 billion people who are still cooking over open fires. Over 20,000 Solavore Sport ovens have been deployed in 60 countries. Solavore is an active member of the Global Alliance for Clean Cook Stoves and Solar Cookers International. For further information please visit . Follow Solavore on Facebook at , on Instagram and on Twitter (at)Solavore.
Cathy Clarke
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