For the organisations that feed, treat and teach — infrastructure that keeps working after the project ends.
School-feeding programmes, humanitarian agencies, health NGOs, faith groups and company community-investment (CSR) teams all face the same problem: the firewood, charcoal and diesel bills that eat the budget, and equipment that dies when the project closes. We deliver solar kitchens, cold rooms and power as standard packages with training, spares, monitoring and three years of maintenance built in.
Three problems every programme manager knows.
Fuel eats the food budget
Firewood and charcoal can take 20–30% of a feeding programme's budget; diesel does the same to a clinic. A solar kitchen or cold room turns that line into food and medicine.
Equipment that outlives the grant
Donated equipment fails when nobody is trained or paid to maintain it. Every FBE package includes two trained operators, a spares kit, remote monitoring and a three-year maintenance agreement.
Funders want numbers
Meals served, energy produced, firewood and CO₂ avoided, hours saved — reported each quarter in a format you can paste into a donor or ESG report.
Standard packages, delivered and maintained.
Solar community kitchens
From a hand-carried portable kit for nomadic families and a trailer-mounted mobile unit (120 meals) to a 1,000-meal fixed kitchen, all running electric pressure cookers and induction hobs on daytime sun.
Learn more →Solar cold rooms and freezers
+2 to +8 °C vaccine and food storage, −25 °C frozen rooms, and 250 L solar freezers for clinics, nutrition centres and cooperatives.
Learn more →Solar power for facilities
Clinics, schools, offices and camps: solar + battery sized to the load, with grid or generator backup through a hybrid inverter.
Learn more →You're a fit if…
- You run or fund a school-feeding, nutrition, health or community programme in Africa, Latin America or the Caribbean
- You are a mining, energy or agribusiness company with host communities and a community-investment budget
- Your sites burn firewood, charcoal or diesel to cook, cool or power daily operations
- You need standard, repeatable packages across several sites — not one-off builds
- Your funders ask for measured impact, not estimates
A 500-meal school kitchen cooking on solar.
Questions NGOs and CSR teams ask us.
Do you sell to NGOs outright or only as a service?
Both. Most programmes buy the kitchen or cold room outright from a capital budget, with the three-year maintenance agreement included. Institutions with a steady food or fuel budget can instead pay a monthly service fee.
Can you deliver to several countries under one agreement?
Yes. The packages are standard, shipped by container from our manufacturing partners, and commissioned with local installation partners. One framework agreement can cover sites in several countries.
Can a mining company fund kitchens for its host communities?
That is one of the most common uses. The company funds the pilot and scale-up from its community-investment budget, FBE delivers and maintains, and the community or school owns the asset after the service period. We report the impact data the company needs for its sustainability reporting.
Which languages do you work in?
English, French, Spanish and Portuguese — proposals, training guides and reporting.
Do you work with nomadic or pastoralist communities?
Yes. For families who travel on foot with only their belongings we make a hand-carried portable kit — a foldable panel, a battery and an electric pressure cooker in two bags. The Mobile trailer kitchen serves camps a vehicle can reach.