Empowering Women
The Liberian Women’s Sewing Project (LWSP) is a sustainable apparel manufacturer based in Monrovia, Liberia. Established in 2009 by Liberian–American entrepreneur Chid Liberty, the company is part-owned and operated by Liberian women. The organization directs 75 percent of its profits toward community development projects. The remaining 25 percent of profits remain within the enterprise, allowing each worker to build equity over time.
Cooperativa Agraria Cafetalera Pangoa (Pangoa) is a Fair Trade and organic-certified coffee cooperative located in San Martín de Pangoa, Peru. Pangoa's 207 active members are smallholder farmers who cultivate shade-grown coffee on the slopes rising from the lowland jungle to the highlands in the region of Junín.
Laguna Baja ARIC is a federation of nine community-based ecotourism enterprises operating in the San Ignacio Lagoon in Mexico’s Baja Peninsula. The San Ignacio Lagoon is the last pristine gray whale birthing lagoon left on the Pacific coast of northwestern Mexico. The lagoon is also home to five small fishing communities with a total of some 500 residents who depend almost entirely on the sea for their livelihoods.