Palm fruit is the most common item in the South-East of Nigeria and also found in most West African countries. Every family owns a couple of palmtrees.
Most women make their living by milling palm oil from it. They do so mostly by hand. By so doing they can only make a few gallons of oil in a day, which barely sustain them. Almost everyone in Nigeria uses palm oil either in cooking or making other essential goods like soap, butter etc. The seed is used for animal forage.
The Palm Oil Project is aimed especially for women, because they bear the responsibility to raise their children, to provide food, clothing and let them go to school. There is no shortage of fertile palmtrees in the surroundings of Umumenike Village.
The women make palmoil already for ages on the only way they know: manually and very intensive energy for a relatively low profit.
The foundation "The Living Water Link" wants to sponsor them by means of mechanical equipment which increases the produce of oil.
Not only the women, but the whole community profits by this project.
The women will be the main users of the machines, while the young men of the village care for the maintenance.
Selling the palmoil is a source of income and provides employment producing it.
So this project opens possibilities for the whole community.
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