•An economic project for women in Burkina Faso who produce and
sell Shea butter
•Burkinakarite is a women’s union
•The women produce the Shea butter and sell It locally at a low
price (€0.35 per kilo) to a local trader who sells it to a larger
trader who then sells it to the cosmetic industry in the West
•Burkinakarite gets the women the money they deserve by cutting
out the middle traders
•In 2005 the ASAP foundation won a prize with the Bid challenge
for the idea of Burkinakarite. Prize money bought press machines, invested in
training fo the women to guarantee a high quality of butter
•In 2008 produced 36,000kg of Shea butter
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