dōTERRA Healing Hands Foundation has partnered with communities in sourcing areas and has supported projects including updating a high school washroom for girls and working with Days for Girls for distribution of 500+ kits in Odisha.
A partner NGO, Farms and Farmers, and our sourcing partner help smallholder farmers improve their livelihood by increasing their income from agricultural activities. The impact from this partnership includes:
- Introducing high-value crops to farmers, including essential oil crops
- Training, agricultural, and crop advisory services
- Nursery and plantation expansion for smallholder farmers
- Health and safety kits
- Providing market opportunities for farmers through the “DeHaat” Program mobile phone apps and other tools
Through dōTERRA’s investment, Farms and Farmers has provided new distillation units in the states of Bihar and Odisha to ensure that farmers have access to valueadding technology near their farms. These new distillation units have reduced the burdens of travel for farmers, which allows them to maintain a higher profit margin on their final sold product. Because of dōTERRA’s increasing demand, dōTERRA can support over 30,000 farmers in India.