PZ Foundation builds shea butter processing centre to empower women in Niger

As part of its corporate social investment programme, PZ Cussons Foundation, a non-profit organisation, has built a shea butter processing centre for Alubarika Women Cooperative in Fazhi community in Edati Local Government Area of Niger State.

The Executive Secretary of the Board of Trustees of PZ Cussons Foundation, Mrs Jacqueline Ezeokwelume, said at the commissioning and handing over, that the project was to support women and make them economically productive.

PZ Cussons Nigeria Plc is a commercial enterprise in Nigeria, Ghana and Kenya.

Ezeokwelume represented by Mr Peter Ozondu said the project would empower and address some of the economic challenges faced by women in the area, state and the country at large.

“The project is an opportunity to give back to the society and we are committed to executing more sustainable projects that will be beneficial to the country,” he said.

Ozondu called on others to emulate the gesture by harnessing abundant human and natural resources to add value to the country.

In his address, President, National Shea Product Association of Nigeria (NSPAN), 

Mohammed Ahmed Kontagora, said that the project was to empower and uplift the economic activities of women at the rural level.

He described women as being committed and highly enterprising when given the opportunity to showcase their abilities and promised to support women cooperative groups to complete with international standard.

According to Kontagora, shea butter being processed by Fazhi women has been graded as the best in the state and the country and commended the women’s level of commitment

Kontagora, however, urged the women and the community to take ownership of the project to add value to their products and warned against the felling of economy trees.

Earlier, the guest of honour, Abraham Yisa, said the project would improve economic activities and add value to labour.

“This project will serve as an employment opportunity to women and help them expand their market,” he said.

Chairman of Edati Local Government, Alhaji Zubairu Mamangi, said the project would bring about economic development in the area and commended the PZ foundation for the gesture.

He called on the foundation to extend the same gesture to other women across the state. 

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