#WorldSHEADAY2024
To celebrate this year's World Shea Day, we convened a SHEA FEST for the first time on June 15, 2024. On that day, more than 3,000 local people in Okere gathered to engage in a series of cultural, creative, and ecological activities meant to celebrate shea butter and promote the regeneration and conservation of shea trees. Watch the full video of the festival here.
HOME OF OKERE SHEA BUTTER
Because shea trees grow naturally in Okere, we are deliberate in our efforts to regenerate and conserve shea trees by promoting its re-forestation and sensitizing our community not to cut the trees. We are also investing in shea butter by creating cosmetic product lines to launch in the marketplace - with the first one being Okere Shea Butter. In essence, we strive to position SHEA BUTTER as the "vibranium" that spurs socio-economic transformation in our village. Among other things, we have started Okere Shea Cooperative Society to be the bedrock upon which our Shea investments are rested.
"I have fallen head over heels in love with Okere Shea Butter. I cannot look further from it. It is by far the best moisturizer I have ever used. Additionally, the story behind the women who collect the nuts is inspiring. To think that when I buy a tin of Okere Shea Butter, at least some money finds its way to these women and the community is amazing"
Shamim Nirere
2024 ANNUAL IMPACT REPORT
2024 was a rollercoaster. We rose over and above our expectations, ensuring that indeed, we continue to ensure that a living wind continues to blow in Okere as our motto reminds us.
Read more in our 2024 Annual Impact Report
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Macmillian Education through their One Stop English Project created an English Quiz Test based on The Guardian Article about our work which was featured in The Guardian.
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OKERE CITY
Okere City is a community where rural development, future aspirations, and cultural connections are consciously uplifted. A place to take a deliberate pause to ponder about a thriving African countryside. We believe that by creating such a space, we can improve rural livelihoods and conditions and inspire a radical rural transformation beyond the borders of our village. We are more than a rural development project. We are both an experiment and an experience of reimagining traditional traditional rural development in Africa. We are also a destination for artists, researchers, activists, writers, thinkers, and dreamers who believe in the potential of the African countryside. We are a practical experimentation of an African ecovillage.
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"In many ways, Okere City is not just a place. It is an experience of a transformational community that endeavors to implement the SDGs through their different initiatives. They are preserving culture; improving literacy rates both among the children and the elderly through the adult literacy program; promoting economic development through the Shea Butter business"
Diana Ondoga, Corporate Investment Lead, Stanbic Bank, Uganda
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