#WonderWomen movement reaches a global milestone
JOBURG – Since the #WonderWomen movement was launched in Sandton in August this year, the drive has now reached a global milestone of one million Wonderbags sold.
Businesswoman and founder of Wonderbag, Sarah Collins, said according to the data collected from the field by Wonderbag, other milestones included saving two million trees from being cut down for use as cooking fuel. She added that 82 percent of rapes that occurred in Africa have been dramatically reduced by ensuring firewood collection only happens once a week.
The Wonderbag is a non-electric, heat retention cooker that allows food that has been brought to the boil by conventional methods, to continue to cook for up to 12 hours, without using any additional energy source.
“By default, Wonderbag has also reduced indoor air pollution and smoke inhalation by 80 percent, which has saved the lives of some of the four million people who die annually from indoor air pollution-related respiratory diseases,” said Collins.
She said the facts were alarming with more than three billion people in the world who still cook on open fires. “This results in four million deaths annually and 50 percent of these deaths are children under the age of five due to indoor air pollution,” said Collins.
Collins added that the impressive benefits that the Wonderbag offered consumers have been publicly supported and endorsed by celebrities, major global entities and world leaders such as Jada Pinkett-Smith, Alicia Silverstone, Bill Gates, Chelsea Clinton, Unilever chief executive Paul Polmon and Dutch Prime Minster Mark Rutte, among many others.
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