The "Hippo Roller" and the "Water Wheel". Two innovations making life easier for women....

[Gormy Cuss]

6. And the WonderBag

.....With help from an African seamstress, Collins made a prototype Wonderbag. A crock pot without wires, her invention would mean an end to women spending five hours or more a day cooking and hunting for firewood, a backbreaking chore made even more dangerous by rapists who have been known to prey on women who gather cook-fire fuel alone.

It would lessen deforestation. It would reduce the number of families sleeping in smoke-congested huts and the number of accidental burns, especially among children.

Cooking times would be drastically reduced, because all women would have to do is heat food to cooking temperature, then move the pot to the Wonderbag to finish cooking.

"With all that freed-up time, they could start businesses, look after their kids, go to school, start small-scale farms," Collins said...

http://www.sfgate.com/food/article/Wonderbag-insulated-cooker-helps-African-women-5112097.php#photo-5585698