Company Profile
Ekero Jiko is a local initiative founded in the Western Region of Kenya with unique innovations and techniques initiated and domesticated in Kenya aimed at enhancing technology in energy transfer. The inventive enterprise was founded in 1992 by a dedicated Entrepreneur and skilled Artisan Mr. Mohamed Olunga aka Engineer Majiko whose love for technical skills and innovation arose from talent, hobby and technical training. The Managing Director was a former employee of Kenya Energy and Environment Organization-(KENGO) for 10 years where he gained most skills and the zeal to run an Energy Conserving
Industry -the now Ekero Jiko Sales.
Ekero Jiko Products continue to attract orders from individuals, institutions and industries as they fit both domestic and commercial consumption. The uptake of Ekero products by Homesteads, Schools, Hotels and Cottage Manufacturing Industries has grown steadily over the years courtesy of the noted energy saving cooking appliances. He commenced active cook-stove sales in 1994. Ekero Jiko was visible and proactive in Exhibitions from early 1995. The Firm became an active member of Mumias Jua-Kali Association. The Company created space for apprenticeship and elementary training of impoverished and skills-thirst women and youth in making and construction of cook-stoves, marketing and book-keeping. Some successful women and youth developed the backdrop of their livelihoods from the respective initiative
Company Vision
Company Vision Quality Cook-Stoves for Environmental Health Restoration and Economic Empowerment. Company Mission Producing Quality Cooking Appliances using Environmental Friendly Technologies for Human Health and Economic Security. Company Quality Statement Conserving Environments through safe innovations and technologies that preserve lives and enhance livelihoods. Contextual Analysis It is in the spirit of conserving the environment that Ekero Jiko continues founding new technologies that favour both the consumer and nature. Innovations that are friendly to Innovations that are friendly to Eco- systems have been proven suitable and responsive to safe environmental health. Conservation, restoration and development of woodlands, forests and generally green cover, have in many instances increased carbon credits, rain catchment and enhanced soil textures.
The Firm promotes conservation of Eco- Systems ensuring availability of enough woodlands and forests to cater for rain catchments and fuel-wood. The Firm believes in planting more trees than harvesting them The Firm Managing Director Mr. Mohamed Olunga Plants Trees to Conserve the Environment Continuing reliance on wood fuel against the backdrop of burgeoning population poses huge threats to the country’s forest cover, undermining capacity for climate change mitigation and adaptation. Dependence on wood fuel is among the contributors of deforestation exacerbating the country’s greenhouse emissions.Barriers to adoption of Improved Cooking Stoves (ICS) vary by sociocultural contexts. Innovations that involve participatory designs, monitoring, and evaluation of ICS might improve the technology uptake levels. The Ekero Artisan Institutional Jiko The Ekero Artisan Institutional Jiko is popular for its efficiency in timely and quality cooking. It has helped many populated institutions prepare meals in good time and quantities.