Wonderbag World

We partner with like-minded organizations to solve the world’s most pressing problems. Every day, more than 3.5 billion people cook over an open fire jeopardizing their health, causing widespread deforestation and burdening women and girls with hours of unpaid labor. The Wonderbag is a simple but revolutionary non-electric slow cooker developed for women cooking over open fires. After bringing a pot of food to the boil and placing it in a foam-insulated Wonderbag, the food will continue cooking for up to 12 hours without additional heat. Because the pot spends a fraction of time on the fire or stove, Wonderbag cooking reduces by 70% the amount of wood, charcoal, and other non-renewable fuels used in the home. This saves hours of time and labor, and improves indoor air quality and overall health. Without a Wonderbag, women burn a bundle of wood preparing every meal. With a Wonderbag, they burn one bundle per week. If 100 million families cooked with Wonderbags they could save almost 8% of the global CO2 reductions needed every year to keep the planet under a 2 degree Celsius temperature rise. If 500 million families used a Wonderbag, they could save 39% of the annual global carbon that needs to be eliminated in each of the next 10 years. With a Wonderbag, women and girls are relieved of up to 1,300 hours of unpaid labor every year. This is a direct investment in human capital which is the best way to unlock productivity and innovation, cut poverty, create opportunities, and generate prosperity. Investing in human capital today helps people increase their incomes tomorrow.