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  <title>Kiva Loans for Dr. Bronner&#039;s / Serendipalm</title>
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   <title>Sofa-Bomso Group : Ghana</title>
   <link>https://www.kiva.org/lend/3139414</link>
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   		   		   		&lt;b&gt;$970 of $1,175 raised.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

   			Started raising funds on Mar 24, 2026
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   			Serendipalm Farmers Association (SOFA-Bomso) is among the Organic and Fair-trade certified Oil Palm farmers located in Akim-Bomso in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. The group comprises about 120 farmers and is led by Odame. The loan, when raised, will benefit 8 farmers from the group, enabling them to purchase pruning tools to prune and harvest their organic oil palms. This will improve yield and make harvesting of their oil palm field easier.

Odame believes that organic oil palm is sustainable and helps develop his community through job creation and fair trade infrastructure projects. The farming work allows him to support his family financially and the community as a whole.
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         <pubDate>Tue, 24 Mar 2026 19:50:29 PDT</pubDate>
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   <title>Sofa-Asuom Group : Ghana</title>
   <link>https://www.kiva.org/lend/3139023</link>
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   		   		   		&lt;b&gt;$575 of $3,175 raised.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

   			Started raising funds on Mar 23, 2026
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   			Serendipalm Farmers Association, (SOFA-Asuom) is an Organic and Fair-trade certified oil palm farmers&#039; collective located in Akim-Asuom in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. The group is comprised of 500 farmers and is led by Emmanuel. 
This loan request will benefit 29 farmers from the group as it will enable them to purchase tools to prune and harvest their organic oil palm farms. This will improve their yield and make harvesting of their oil palm fields easier.

Emmanuel believes that organic oil palm is sustainable and helps develop his community through job creation and infrastructural fair trade projects.
The farming work allows him to support his family financially. He is married and has four children.
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         <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2026 07:24:22 PDT</pubDate>
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   <title>Sofa-Abaam Group : Ghana</title>
   <link>https://www.kiva.org/lend/3139331</link>
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   		   		   		&lt;b&gt;$0 of $2,500 raised.&lt;br/&gt;&lt;br/&gt;&lt;/b&gt;

   			Started raising funds on Apr 10, 2026
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   			Serendipalm Farmers Association, (SOFA-Abaam) is made up of an organic and fair-trade certified oil palm farmers located in Akim-Abaam in the Kwaebibirem District of the Eastern Region of Ghana, West Africa. 

The group comprises of 130 farmers and is led Azad. This loan request will benefit 26 farmers from the group to enable them purchase pruning tools to prune and harvest their organic oil palm farms. 

These will improve yield and make harvesting of their organic oil palm field easier.

Azad believes organic oil palm is sustainable and helps develop his community through job creation and infrastructural fair trade projects.

The farming work allows him to support his family financially and the community as a whole.
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         <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2026 14:00:22 PDT</pubDate>
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