sustainability

Value integration, not charity. This report documents what customers, partners, and Baraka built together in 2024-2025: over $100,000 invested in women's enterprise infrastructure, equipment reducing carbon emissions by 90%, and income opportunities for more than 3,000 women in northern Ghana.

Every order and every tip made an impact. Your purchases & contributions, and your customers purchases, impacted the lives of over 1,000 rural women and their families in December. Read on for some of the highlights.

Baraka Impact was selected as the the 2022 SME of the Year for Sustainability and Social Investment at the Sustainability & Social Investment (SSI) Ghanaian Awards Ceremony held on Friday, November 18th at the Kempinski Hotel in Ghana.

All Baraka orders are now shipped carbon free, and benefit rural women in Ghana and Kenya Every Baraka Shipment to our customers is now shipped carbon neutral, with the support going towards a project in Kenya, providing hard-working rural women with stoves that reduce cooking time, conserve fuel, combat climate change and deforestation and reduce the fuel cost for the women. This only happened because of the support and encouragement of our customers.

The hard-working women of Konjiehi are getting a new enterprise center and the community is getting a new well thanks to Baraka's customers and their purchases of Baraka butters and oils. Every purchase makes a difference

Baraka's shea butter is made by hand by the women of the Konjeihi Women's Enterprise Centre in Ghana: the nuts are dried, ground, roasted, ground again, kneaded with water and whipped until the oil separates, then boiled and cooled. Here is each step, why the nuts are roasted, and who does the work.