Ukubasa Clean Cooking Initiative

Ukubasa Retail Holdings (Pty) Ltd is a South African manufacturer and distributor of durable, fuel-efficient wood-burning cookers designed to improve access to affordable, cleaner cooking solutions across Africa.

The initiative seeks to address the challenges associated with traditional open-fire cooking, including:

• Indoor air pollution and respiratory health risks.
• Excessive fuel consumption and household energy costs.
• Deforestation and environmental degradation.
• Limited access to reliable cooking energy in off-grid and rural communities.

Ukubasa's cookers are engineered to:

• Reduce smoke emissions.
• Improve combustion efficiency.
• Lower firewood consumption.
• Provide a durable long-life cooking solution.
• Support household resilience where electricity supply is unreliable.

Impact Objectives

• Improve health outcomes through reduced exposure to harmful cooking smoke.
• Reduce household expenditure on cooking fuels.
• Decrease pressure on local forests and natural resources.
• Create employment opportunities through local manufacturing and distribution.
• Support climate mitigation through reduced biomass consumption and lower emissions.

Vision Statement

"To provide affordable, durable and efficient clean cooking solutions that improve lives, protect the environment and empower communities across Africa."