Colombian sustainable brand Chocolate Cordillera will announce a significant update to its ATENEA sustainability programme this week when more than 100 women cocoa farmers from the Urabá, region in Antioquia graduate and complete their transformative journey to become independent entrepreneurs.
Cordillera Chocolates (the B2B business of Grupo Nutersa’s Compañía Nacional de Chocolates) launched the hugely ambitious programme in July 2023 to generate a long-term transformation for women cocoa producers and enable a more just, thriving, equitable, and inclusive value chain.
‘ATENEA – Women Who Transcend’ is a sustainability initiative with a ‘higher purpose,’ developing the capacities of rural cocoa-growing women to improve their quality of life and that of their families and communities while maintaining Colombia’s unique ecosystem.
A spokesperson for Chocolate Cordillera said: “We believe in the power of women to impact and generate a transformation on a larger scale. We believe that we’re not impacting an individual when we impact women. We’re impacting a family. We’re impacting a community on a larger scale.”
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