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Doing good and better

Some 350 women from two villages are currently producing shea butter for WALA. The women have organised themselves in a producers' cooperative, a purely women's community such as is common and normal in Africa. Shea butter was always women's business. For the project the women have given themselves the name 'IKEUFA' (faire bien et meilleur de Diarabakoko) which means something like: do good and better in Diarabakoko.
All positions in the cooperative, from the president through the treasurer to the secretary, are elected by the village women. "The women are traditionally very independent" says Hermann Schopferer. They have always had their own fields and earned their own money which they administer themselves. The self-assured Burkina Faso women discuss all project issues in detail with Schopferer, for example the question of how they can meet WALA's high standards of quality and hygiene. The money earned from selling the shea butter enables the women to pay the school fees for their children and to send all their children to school instead of just one or two. It also allows them to meet their basic needs in terms of food and necessary drugs.