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doTERRA Co-Impact Sourcing
Initiative in Somalia
The doTERRA Co-Impact Sourcing that these important jobs (typically
Initiative provides frankincense held by women) remain in rural
harvesters with fair wages and on- areas where they are most needed
time payments (including food and and benefit the harvesting families.
cash prepayments spread out Our initiative also ensures that
during the year) by working these women receive fair wages
around the layers of middlemen and that they are able to work in
and instead working directly with more favorable working conditions.
those who harvest and sort the Along with these sustainable
frankincense. This arrangement sourcing efforts, the doTERRA
provides a much more stable and Healing Hands Foundation™ has
reliable income to frankincense also funded the construction of
harvesters. doTERRA is also two new schools for hundreds of
working with our partners to students from harvester clans. For
ensure that the cleaning and more information, see more here.
sorting of the frankincense resins These efforts are making a positive
takes place as close to the impact for improving the rural
harvesting locations as possible so families’ livelihoods.
