South Africa is a beautiful country, with beautiful people. This beautiful country is full of hardships and people with desperate situations. People have to get by on meager salaries, if they’re lucky enough to have a job, but the cost of living is very high. Add to that loadshedding and there is a surefire disaster waiting to happen.
There are many families in which the woman is the provider; families that have to survive on R50 per week. These families live in shacks and have to cook their one meal for the day using burning wood inside their shacks. This has resulted in 1000s of shack fires and people, kids too, suffering from smoke inhalation.
This is what inspired Sarah Collins to develop something that will make the lives of South African women easier. She developed an ingenious product called the Wonderbag based on how her grandmother and the San people used to cook. Her grandmother would wrap a pot in blankets etc after it reached boiling point to preserve fuel on the farm. The San people would bury their pots underground to cook meals.
Watch the Sarah Collins story here:
This wonderbag has changed the lives of rural woman by allowing them more time to spend on cultivating fresh produce, they now only have to fetch wood once a week instead of daily and the children don’t have to inhale deadly fumes from cooking on an open fire inside their homes.
According to the website, the ‘Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary, non-electric portable slow cooker. It continues to cook food which has been brought to the boil by conventional methods for up to 8 hours without the use of additional electricity or fuel.’
Not all of us have the ability to develop products like this to help improve quality of life, but you can help! For every Wonderbag sold a portion of the proceeds goes towards donating a Wonderbag to a family in need within a designated community in a developing country. Don’t wait any longer, buy your Wonderbag today!