Our global responsibility
As a world leading producer of shea fat, it is important for AAK to take social and ethical responsibility, both for the raw material and for the production.
- The film AAK in Africa shows an example of how AAK conducts its CSR work in Africa in cooperation with the UN Development Program (UNDP), and it also describes our process for acquiring the shea raw material.
The UNDP project aims to install multi-functional platforms in Burkina Faso - partly to combat poverty, partly to support AAK's strategy to obtain more shea raw material. In practice, the project means that women's work has improved significantly through the availability of simple machines that can be used for a variety of everyday chores, such as husking rice, grinding corn, grinding shea or pumping water.
As the women's household chores are facilitated, they have more time to collect shea. This has in turn generated a higher income, so that children can attend school. This is a work in progress and new machinery is installed continuously in cooperation with the UN.