COVID-19: What we're doing and how you can help

Dear True Moringa Friends and Family,

There’s no two ways about it - these are difficult times. We’re working hard to honor our commitments of delivering your healthy skincare essentials, embracing our local community, and caring for the 5000 farming families and 100 employees along our supply chain.

CARING FOR YOU AND YOUR SKIN

As of now, our warehouse is open (following CDC guidelines) and shipping any order placed through our website. Please allow an additional day or two in transit. Though many of our retailers are closed due to COVID-19, you can find us on shelves in Pharmaca, Whole Foods throughout New England, and at our Boston local favorite Cambridge Naturals (phone orders only). You can also purchase online through Amazon.

CARING FOR OUR FARMING FAMILIES AND EMPLOYEES

Our non-essential employees in Ghana are working from home. We have temporarily suspended farmer visits and trainings, but remain in close contact with our field team and farmers via SMS. We are deploying mobile money payments instead of cash transactions where possible for farmers in remote areas. We have partnered with a collective of 20 Made-In-Ghana brands to use our resources and team to safely deliver healthy food (moringa-powered and otherwise) to families throughout Ghana in need. If you're based in Ghana, you can safely shop for COVID essentials and self-care at www.thrivetogether.store.

CARING FOR OUR COMMUNITY:

Small business & health workers: This April, we participated in the #BeMyQuarantine campaign alongside so many of our favorite small businesses. For each order placed from April 3rd-April 10th, we donated a product to frontline healthcare professionals fighting COVID-19 in the Boston area. To date, we have donated over 200 products to frontline healthcare workers in Cambridge MA, Somerville MA, and Los Angeles CA. To request a donation, reach out to info@truemoringa.com

Food insecure families in Ghana: In May, we launched our Mother's Day Gift Box in partnership with Elements Truffles. 20% of proceeds benefit Kayayei women - female head porters in the markets of Accra, Ghana who have lost their homes and livelihoods due to COVID-19. 20% of all sales from April 27-May 10th will go directly to food aid for this population.

Essential workers: This June, we launched our Hero Basket campaign to allow customers to send a basket of Made-In-Ghana goodies to essential workers in Accra and greater Boston. Send a basket here: https://truemoringa.com/pages/hero-baskets

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Sending Moringa Love,

Kwami & Emily

Your skincare ingredients grow here!

who we are

In January of 2013, Kwami Williams and Emily Cunningham found themselves working in rural Ghana by different paths.

Emily was studying development economics at Harvard, frustrated by the disconnect between the information in her textbooks and realities in the developing world.

Born and raised in Ghana, Kwami and his family immigrated to the US at the age of 8. By 2012, he was living the American Dream having graduated from MIT with a degree in aerospace engineering and starting a career at NASA when a mentor challenged him to return to his native Ghana.

meet the moringa tree

It was here that the pair were introduced to the moringa tree. NGOs encouraged farmers to cultivate moringa for the nutritional benefits - gram for gram, the leaves of the tree contain more iron than spinach, more protein than yogurt, and more calcium than milk. But farmers didn’t have a way to earn a living cultivating moringa - no access to market.

So Kwami and Emily took the unused part of the tree - the seeds- back to their labs at MIT and figured out how to cold-press the moringa seeds into a nourishing oil that outperforms argan, jojoba, and shea.

Together, we set about building True Moringa with the mission of doing wellness differently. We believe that being healthy should be simple, affordable, and accessible to all.

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TOUR OUR FARM

5000 farmers. 3 million trees planted.

We envision a future in which all ingredients sourced by skincare and wellness brands provide transformative impact to the people and planet that produce them.

Plant a tree in your name here and search your order number here to see where your tree is planted and learn more about the farmer who benefits

We take a three pronged approach to ethical production through our farming, manufacturing, and product development

OUR JOURNEY STARTS AT THE FARM...

Climate Smart Agriculture

Your skincare is powered by solar! Our farm is home to West Africa's largest solar-powered irrigation project. Moringa trees are drought resistant, require little water, and capture 20x the carbon of other vegetation. We use a regenerative agriculture approach to protect soil health and increase biodiversity.
LAND ACCESS FOR WOMEN & TRIBAL MINORITIES

Community members who typically lack access to land are allotted a plot on our farm and given access to irrigation, organic certification, agricultural training, and wrap around services like child care, scholarship funding, health insurance, and more. These programs increased womens' participation in lucrative tree crop farming from 0% to 40%.
Building Community Wealth

True Moringa Farmers organize themselves into small groups of 30 members to form Village Savings and Loan Associations - micro banks through which members learn financial literacy skills, save their earnings from their moringa farms, and lend to other members at low interest rates. For every $1 invested in VSLAs, $10 of community wealth is generated.

Award winning ingredients made with love in ghana

cold-pressed moringa oil

Too often, commodities like cocoa and coffee are extracted from developing countries and all of the value addition is done in western countries. 98% of our team is from Ghana and based in Ghana full time where we cold press our moringa oil and mill our organic moringa powder. By creating jobs and adding value locally, we are shifting this paradigm.

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ORGANIC MORINGA POWDER

Too often commodities like cocoa and coffee are extracted from developing countries and all of the value addition is done in western countries. 98% of our team is from Ghana and based in Ghana full time where we cold press our moringa oil and mill our organic moringa powder. By creating jobs and adding value locally, we are shifting this paradigm.

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superfood powered formulas backed by science

Our award winning formulas are always vegan, paraben free, sulfate free, but they are also packed with superfood nutrients backed by science and centuries of local knowledge.