Alaffia

Alaffia is a social enterprise on a mission to invest in a more equitable future. Together, we’re cultivating beauty, equality and empowerment in West Africa and around the globe.

Alaffia is built on a philosophy of fair trade defined by paying a fair local price or wage, offering equal employment opportunities, engaging in environmentally sustainable practices, providing healthy and safe working conditions, being open to public accountability and reducing the number of middlemen from supplier to consumer.

Our women’s cooperatives in West Africa handcraft indigenous raw ingredients then the Alaffia team in Olympia, Washington creates the finished products. Alaffia returns the proceeds from the sale of these products to our communities to fund community empowerment and gender equality projects.