USAID and the Global Shea Alliance help 16 million women from 21 African countries to collect, harvest and sell shea products around the world. This video highlights the work Rita Dampson does with shea collectors and processors in rural Ghana.
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since I got myself into the shale
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industry I make sure I go to the rural
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areas that is where the sheer trees are
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always abundant and the chef because
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that
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I went with women I put women together I
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give them skills I have power them and
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so they always in something that is my
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job
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I started with 33 women and now they are
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like thousand and even more when I form
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a new group I go to them and build
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centers there and then we start working
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together we stand under this caution
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stand to roast to crush and drew all the
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way the share button is the hardware
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though it is very hard but still the
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women are so happy
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some have saved up to the amount they
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can used to build a house in the village
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the beneficiary had from the sheer
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possession
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she has been saving some money so they
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have now moved from the family house to
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their own house with their children here
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actually it has changed my life and now
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I'm living in a new house I used to be
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cooking and doing everything in my pouch
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but now I can see I have a kitchen that
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I stand in comfort ability to things
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without any worries it's like a dream to
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me because I didn't start this way and I
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think is the hard-working with me and my
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women that have gotten me up to this
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stage
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I have gone far I have benefited and I
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want a woman to feel the same I want the
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woman to also get up to the stage I am
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now
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you
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