Leticia is the founder of the first all-women cocoa cooperative, in Ghana, with over 600 women farmers. She owns 3 cocoa plantations, and handles the drying and fermentation of the beans herself. Leticia has also set up a chocolate kitchen in her home, where she makes chocolate with her mother. This transformation of raw cocoa into chocolate is a key stage, and is the one that creates the most added value, and therefore profits for the cooperative!

In this way, Leticia takes action to improve cocoa production conditions, while ensuring sustainable income for her community and her country.

Fair pay for the women who grow our chocolate

Leticia also acts as a spokesperson for the women she works with, constantly asking for better cocoa prices.

She participates in the Fair4All project, which promotes fairer supply chains on a national and international scale. Oxfam-Québec and its partners support her in her calls for a decent income for cocoa producers, especially women. Traditionally, women do most of the hard work, but do not have equal rights to land ownership.

For this reason, she took part in Amsterdam Cocoa Week in February 2024, an event that brought together all the stakeholders of the sector, and where she was able to make her claims heard.

When Amal came to the JWU center for support, her children, Sadeen and Omar, were still very young. Today, they are 14 and 16 respectively.
When she arrived, she was quickly hired as a trainer in a beauty salon, and is now in charge of it. At the same time, she started an ambitious project: the construction of her own house, a project that took nine years, from the laying of the first brick to the installation of the last piece of furniture.

The shelter for women who have suffered of domestic violence

In Jordan, the Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU) supports women who have suffered violence by providing them with legal, financial and psychosocial support. This support includes a telephone helpline, as well as a reception center where they can begin their new lives in safety and receive training to find employment and become financially independent.

Thanks to your donations, our partner in Jordan, the Jordanian Women’s Union (JWU), helps women who have suffered of violence to rebuild their lives in complete safety. They also receive training to help them find jobs and become financially independent.