Around 9 in 10 women living in northern #Ghana’s rural areas rely on shea trees for their income. Most live on less than $2 a day.
But today digital technology is helping to break this cycle of poverty - by empowering Ghana’s women shea farmers to boost their profits, improve their financial security and literacy, and by conserving and cultivating the shea trees on which they depend.
Here, Sommalife co-founder and COO Mawuse Christina Gyisun explains how her social enterprise’s digital platform works - and reveals the scale of the transformation underway in the region today.
Sommalife is a Schwab Foundation Awardee 2025. The Schwab Foundation champions outstanding models of social #innovation from around the world. Learn more: https://www.schwabfound.org/
