A Gift To Africa

A Gift To Africa (AGTA) is a social enterprise that practices fair-trade principles and encourage all the women we work with to be “for-profit” so that they remain competitive and sustainable on the market. AGTA that was established in 2005 to assist women in third world countries and particularly in Africa to initially market high-end, handmade, fairly-traded art and crafts made by women and later to wild harvest ethnic ingredients that include seeds that produce organic, natural and healthy foods and skincare. AGTA is also registered in Malawi, Africa. Products come from Kenya, Uganda, South Africa, Zimbabwe and soon, Mozambique; consisting of about 200 women. AGTA assists with the production of the food ingredients that it then further manufactures and markets in the USA market. The company has initially chosen wild harvested ingredients (from Malawi, Kenya and soon Mozambique) that require less resources upfront and that are readily available to the women in the rural areas of these countries. The ingredients that we have chosen as easy entry level include the baobab fruit powder, coffee and oil, marula oil, mafura oil and various other oils and herbs. The product line also includes moringa leaf, moringa powder and oil. The Baobab tree grows in the most climate vulnerable parts of Southern and Eastern Africa because it is drought resistant and the Moringa is found everywhere in Africa. These products have been chosen because they are high in nutrition and the demand for such nutrients in western markets are skyrocketing. AGTA collaborates with women in these countries to harvest and do the basic processing. The company then imports the basic ingredients and then make products in its Florida operation. All transactions are done following fair-trade principles. All products manufactured in the USA do not include chemicals or GMOs.