Solavore’s Indiegogo campaign funds distribution of solar ovens in Kenya, India and Cambodia

Solavore, LLC, a women-owned social enterprise committed to the manufacture and global distribution of fuel-free clean cooking technology, 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 (45percent off its retail price) to donate one Solavore Sport solar oven to their programs in India, Cambodia or Kenya.

Solavore launched its Indiegogo 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 Solavore Works 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, Solavore is the manufacturer of the Sport solar oven, a 100% renewable energy solar oven. Every solar oven purchased helps to fund a Solavore Sport somewhere in the world where an open fire is still the main kitchen appliance.

“As a social enterprise, 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 — Buy One Solavore Sport for your family, Give One to a family in a Solavore Works program.

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.