About Empower VillageEmpower Village distributes pure, unrefined Shea butter, a product made from nuts harvested from karite trees in Burkina Faso, West Africa. Our Shea nuts are harvested, processed, transported, and manufactured into Shea butter by women for who traditional techniques handed down through generations. The trees and nuts are organically grown, and processed to retain the unrefined purity of our Shea butter.Our mission is to promote the healthy benefits of natural, handmade Shea butter from Burkina Faso, as well as provide a fair income to the women who labor to produce it.Our goals are to:Empower women and villages in Burkina FasoSupport the tradition of Shea nut harvesting, processing and manufacturing into Shea butterSupply Shea butter worldwideThe project gathers 300 women from two, groups. One group regroup women from five villages and another group regroup city women. Indirectly, it is whole population of 38, 637 inhabitants who are affected by the project: Some as consumers and others as suppliers of raw material (Shea nuts). It should note that the income from his activity contributes to the development of the local economy. This activity represents a source of income which makes up more than 75% of the women annual income. Which help them meet the basic needs of their children (food, heath care, school fees ¦) The women of Burkina Faso are our experts. They are organized into cooperatives and provide all labor in creating pure, unrefined Shea butter. Fair trade values are of the utmost importance to Empower Village, and thus we pay in excess of fair wages, empowering these women, while we continually seek ways to help empower their villages. In addition, Empower Village is a supporter/contributor to Regeneration Sahel, a Burkinabe women's cooperative effort that seeks to restore the environment by planting trees in the Sahel. Empower Village will give 2% of our revenue to this organization each year to help preserve biodive
