Dr Minal Kabra co-founded healthy cookie brand Kivu to empower rural women, save the planet
Dr Minal Kabra co-founded Kivu, a maker of the world’s only sun-baked vegan and gluten-free cookies. The Maharashtra-based business also empowers rural women. What if munching means helping to offer employment and sustenance to rural women while also doing your part to help the environment? That is the distinguishing feature of the Maharashtra-based cookie company Kivu – Kingdom of Good Food. Kivu, a foodtech firm founded in 2019 by Dr. Minal Kabra and Vaibhav Dugar, claims to be the world's only sun-baked vegan cookies." The co-founders say, "Kivu's approach to health is comprehensive. We hope to enable rural women to bake our exclusive vegan and gluten-free cookies using specially constructed solar ovens by weaving the customer, the producer, and the environment in a symbiotic relationship. This simple departure from traditional factory-based manufacturing creates a sustainable livelihood for rural women while also preventing five grammes of CO2 per c...