Harvesting hope: Women in White River create peanut butter brand

Harvesting hope: Women in White River create peanut butter brand

In the eucalyptus plantations outside White River, a group of women are turning resilience and hard work into a thriving venture through the Siyatiphilisa Groundnut Project. Over the past six years, forestry company MTO Group has supported the initiative, providing 122 women from surrounding villages with land to cultivate peanuts. Most of the women are heads of households, raising grandchildren or supporting families alone. What began as a mean…