It has been great visiting the banana coops in the
eastern province to discuss the opportunity to become one of SHE’s business partners.
The SHE Rwanda business development team has been visiting banana co-ops across
East Africa to introduce them to our innovative product, the SHE LaunchPad, and
to invite them to become one of SHE’s banana fiber suppliers.
Farmers rarely use pseudostems of banana trees
except as fertilizer. We at SHE, however, have been showing them that what was
once considered “agro-waste” has a more efficient, and biodegradable use as the
raw material in our sanitary pads.
We returned to one co-op we have visited in Eastern
Rwanda that was excited about our innovation. We returned with the goal of
signing them up as one of our suppliers. After discussion and negotiations, the
co-op agreed on our proposed price and supply amount. This was a great ACHIEVEMENT
for the SHE team and the co-op! We are officially in business with banana fiber
suppliers!
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| Juliet (at left) and SHE COO, Rwanda Julian (3rd from left) with the co-op members |
Over the next six months, we will be working closely
with this co-op as we show them how to use a banana fiber extraction machine
and evaluate their production output as we move into our pilot industrial-scale
phase.
Cheers!
Juliet B.
1 comment:
Interesting that you are using the agro waste in a useful method to develop products and banana suppliers will be gained by this type of innovative process.
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