SAL EnterpriseHandmade Shea ButterFair Trade

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Shea nutsWe are locally based Shea Butter producer/supplier in Tamale, Northern Ghana. Our business promotes Shea Butter produced in Northern Ghana and in the West Africa region. The fundamental objective of our business is to promote, foster and grow community based commerce in Shea Butter in order to create employment and income opportunities locally within Ghana's Northern Communities.

Business Mission

  • To be a producer and supplier of high quality locally produced unrefined shea butter;
  • To work with Shea butter producers and NGOs' to promote and find workable strategies that provide/enhance fair trade environment to locally made Ghanaian Shea butter;
  • To encourage international business to buy Shea Butter made in Africa so as to enhance economic and social reforms and ease poverty;
  • To participate create sustainable employment and income opportunities in Ghana's Shea Butter producing communities.

Partnering

  • Build alliance with businesses who share the vision of promoting and achieving fair trade and to grow business and economic activities in Ghana's Northern rural communities;
  • Economic circumstances of Shea Butter producers groups;
  • Subsistence living - farming; sheanuts; sheabutter;
  • Generally, individuals/households in the community are enterprising. Each producer can and often do pursue market outlets on their own but can also opt into a co-op;
  • Prices paid are always negotiated in free and open market conditions. Producers do not negotiate in isolation of general market conditions. In fact, there are several market venues and they always have options.

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last updated
on June 26, 2005
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