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Business management support needed for shea butter fair trade cooperative in Kenya/Sudan

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Lulu Works Trust, LTD

Who are you trying to help? What issue are you trying to address?

We are a women’s cooperative making high quality shea butter body care. We currently employ 200 war affected women in Kenya and Sudan who support their families through this business. Our product currently sells to International market via our website. We are committed to returning a high yield of our profits to the women who produce the shea butter and we work in support of Fair Trade. We need business management and marketing support to continue to develop our organisational model.

Please view our business plan and website for more detail on our work.

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Categorisations

Partnership types

Doing business with the poor; Provision of services / personnel

Regions / countries / territories

Africa: Kenya; Sudan

Global issues

Community development; Job creation and enterprise development; Trade and development

Business sectors

Accounting and management services; Manufacturing; Media and PR; Personal care; Retail...show all (5)

Responses

  • Commented
    27 Sep 2011 03:28 GMT

    We have done some research to try to find organizations that might be able to provide you with funding/support and have identified the following that you may wish to contact:

    1. Women for Women - www.womenforwomen.org
    Women for Women International supports women in war-torn regions with financial and emotional aid, job-skills training, rights education and small business assistance so they can rebuild their lives. WfW operates an individual sponsorship programme whereby funds from private sponsors are used to help women receive job-skills training, business and money management basics and rights awareness education.

    Please contact the organisation at the below contact details to learn more about participation in their programmes. More information at www.womenforwomen.org/programs-supporting-women/sponsoring-a-woman.php

    Contact detail:
    UK OFFICE
    32 - 36 Loman Street
    London SE1 0EH UK
    T. 020.7922.7765
    Email (general inquiries): general@womenforwomen.org
    Email (sponsorship programme): sponsorship@womenforwomen.org
    Email (UK inquiries): supportuk@womenforwomen.org

    2. There is also an offer from Global Hand that may be of interest to you:

    www.globalhand.org/en/browse/partnering/5/offers/offer/1038

    It is offered to help create animated Public Service Announcements and cartoons for Public relations, fundraising, and educational purposes.

    We hope this will be of help for your work.