Just Shea

just shea is a social business created to increase the leverage, income and safety of the 600,000 women in ghana who participate in the global shea trade. the just shea program is augmenting the health and economy of the women shea harvesters of ghana with a multi-pronged approach including: providing safety gear to groups of women harvesters as a loan repaid in shea nuts, to protect them from ubiquitous snakes, and the establishment of cooperative silos to increase the price per kilo paid to the harvesters. the just shea program is funded in part by sales from our line of luxury skincare products made with safely harvested, equitably traded shea butter, created expressly for this purpose. all of our net profits are channeled through our non-profit (www.ovp-wdi.org) to provide snake bite protection, improved equipment and infrastructure, and, in turn, increased economic return, for the women who harvest and process just shea.