OUR STORY
OUR MISSION
Our mission is to empower rural African women through community processing of the highest quality natural products, practicing a socially and environmentally responsible business while ensuring the value addition at source is maximised.
We work with local cooperatives, empowering women in a sustainable, profitable manner.
We offer a fully traceable supply chain and logistics from start to finish: the collection of the nuts and seeds in West Africa; the processing in communities; the refining/filtering and packing in state-of-the-art facilities in Europe; and the transport and delivery to our worldwide clients.
Value addition is maximized at source (directly to women in the local village) by processing in the traditional hand-crafted manner, instead of using mechanical or industrial extraction models. Business is undertaken using 100% short-term pre-financing of local purchase orders and the women are empowered to negotiate the price through a jointly agreed memorandum of understanding (MOU), which in turn guarantees that quality and quantity is always delivered to SFC.
The Savannah Fruits Company is headquartered in Tamale, Northern Region Ghana and was founded in 2006 on the belief that business can, and should, produce social good and contribute to the sustainability of our planet’s ecosystem.
SUSTAINABLE VALUES
Increase sustainably women revenues.
Extra incomes made from community processed products enable to secure more foodstuff for tough time.
Gender equality is a fundamental human right, but a necessary foundation for a peaceful, prosperous and sustainable world. SFC aims at empowering as many women as possible and help them to grow their businesses and become self-sustainable.
Instead of selling raw material one a year, women process all year round.
Women cooperatives invest in innovative productive equipment adapted to their traditional know how.
Women get more decision power in communities as well as regular revenues. Community processed products revenues are shared among all members.
Women are important pillars in rural communities. Empowering them enforces social ties.
SFC helps to protect biodiversity for future generations by supporting biodiversity conservation projects and contributing to conservation trust funds.
SFC develops PPP and other partnerships with local and international organisations for sustainable development.
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