SOCIAL IMPACT
Our model is a comprehensive approach to providing safe, healthy, natural, and organic products while alleviating poverty in Africa and preserving traditional skills and knowledge for the global market. Through creating Fair Trade opportunity jobs, MAKOMAS is committed to investing in our people for a more sustainable future, allowing African communities to rise out of poverty.
Free Business Training
Our business model includes caring for the women farmers who typically never had consistent markets for the products that they grow. By providing ongoing technical assistance, skill trainings and income opportunities, we unlock the power of the U.S. market for hundreds of low-income women farmers in Africa. Our business training program challenges these women to dream big. This public support is critical to the philosophy of MAKOMAS. As we grow, we impact more and more lives in the countries we source our ingredients from.
Care for the Planet
We constantly review how to become more eco-friendly. Currently we have been successful in limiting the amount of material used in our packaging. All of our boxes, for example, are made of recycled material and they are 100% recyclable. While some of our packaging still contains some plastic, we are trying to reduce the amount we use. The process is a journey and we are committed to doing our part to reduce waste and to protect the environment.
Empowering Communities
Our initial impetus in starting MAKOMAS was dual edged, produce a quality product while at the same time, become a force for good. And we’ve done just that, since 2011. Because we believe in the power of human potential, we have partnered with women farmers in Africa by providing them with dependable job opportunities.
Our Social Impact System
Our social impact system in local communities is particularly effective because we are targeting women
Investments in women's self-development and prosperity have been shown to positively impact their children's nutrition, health, and education. In doing so, we are contributing to 6 out of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
