The Songtaaba Women’s Group has been transforming one of the few economic assets in Sahelian Africa controlled by women — karite butter — from a less-than-subsistence, informal-sector activity into a formalized and systematized cottage industry capable of generating not only dramatically increased incomes, but also new jobs, new skills and opportunities, and the organizational training for further expansion of women into the formal economic activities. The Songtaaba Women’s Group, is headed by its founder, Marcelline Ouédraogo. (The name Songtaaba, in the Moore language, means "to help one another."

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