Ghana: Three shea butter factories commissioned at Kassena-Nankana

Tree Aid, an International Development Organization working in Northern Ghana has commissioned and handed over three shea butter processing centres to women groups at three different communities in the Kassena-Nankana area of the Upper East Region. The NGO under its ‘Grow Hope Project’ supported the women groups who had started the construction of the processing centres to complete them and install the necessary equipment to aid in the processing of quality shea butter. The beneficiary communities are Nyangua and Biu in the Kassena-Nankana Municipal and Chiana-Abolo in the Kassena-Nankana West District. The project, which started in 2018 is being facilitated by Organization for Indigenous Initiatives and Sustainability (ORGIIS), a local NGO which focuses on the environment. It is financially support from the Jersey Overseas Aid, another NGO. Speaking at the separate commissioning of the projects, Mr Jonathan A. Naaba, the Country Programmes Manager, Tree Aid, explained ...