“I do it because it’s the right thing to do and I’ve seen hundreds of thousands of women’s lives transformed. I have a purpose”

South African entrepreneur Sarah Collins invented the Wonderbag, a cookpot that is literally saving women’s lives in developing countries. She talks to Johanna Derry about what inspires her

Sarah Collins is full of energy, a firebrand if ever you met one. She’s a talker, passionate, barely pausing for breath, the conversation peppered with anecdotes of failure one moment, stories about meeting famous names – Richard Branson, Jane Goodall, Ban Ki-Moon – the next. Ten years ago she invented the Wonderbag, what she describes as “a cloth bag that looks like a pumpkin that can change the world”. It’s a simple idea – a nonelectric portable slow cooker, which prevents women and children from having to spend hours gathering fuel and living with smoke inhalation. Given that 40% of the world’s population still cooks over an open fire, four million die annually from indoor air pollution, and 90% of cleared land is never replanted, her invention is no small…

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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, October 2018

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