Community processed shea butter ensures that women processing shea are empowered all year round. Instead of the groups just selling the nuts once a year to be shipped out and processed in industrial factories, they organise themselves in to cooperatives and process the shea butter in West Africa all year round as SFC places orders. Once one order is completed, we place another one. This is also the case for our other products: Baobab Oil; Extra Virgin Coconut Oil and Black soap. This model ensures added value is made at source in the communities.