Ecoproducts and Esse support rural crèche

One of the villages where some of our harvesters live has a little crèche which is so needed while mothers go out to work.  Yet they have so very little in the way of even basic resources for busy, active, growing little children.   Recently on one of my monitoring trips, I was able to take some chairs and tables to the little ones in the crèche.  Pink for girls and blue for boys. These were kindly donated by Esse Organic Skin Care (who use our organic baobab powder in their cosmetics).  Lots of smiles all round – thanks Esse!

 

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