Feven Tsehaye, Founder and CEO of Tchakka Origins founded the company to merge her appreciation for nature along with her desire to share the story of Ethiopia’s indigenous plant species with a proposition for a plant-based lifestyle embedded in sustainability at its core.
Feven’s prior work experience was in social impact investments in agriculture and healthcare in Africa with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Prior to that, Feven served as a fellow for Vittana in Peru, scaling-up product and service delivery for vocational education micro-loan programs. With a deep desire to transform sustainability in business, Tchakka Origins is the first vertically integrated specialty natural ingredients company from Ethiopia, using an agroforestry model to source and process natural ingredients from indigenous plants for use in personal care, wellness, herbal teas and food. By merging the biodiversity of endemic plant species, sourced from forested ecosystems and in partnership with female smallholder farming communities, Tchakka Origins offers impactful products for a plant-based lifestyle.
At Tchakka Origins, natural ingredients are sustainably sourced directly from forested areas in the heart of Ethiopia’s biosphere reserves, with exceptional care to enhance every bit of function, property, nutrient, and with quality crafting of indigenous plant products for use in specialty personal care, wellness, herbal teas and food ingredients. Tchakka Origins’ commitment to ecological sustainability and social equity, with use of indigenous plant species never before used in personal care and wellness, enables a thoughtful selection of plants with naturally high-performing chemical functions. The range of their plant-based products heightens the experiences of global personal care and wellness markets from skincare and haircare formulation to herbal teas.
Tchakka Origins and its partner farmers are committed to exclusively organic production of plants, from soil to harvest. To maximize both ecological and social impact, they partner directly with smallholder farming communities, establishing control of value chains, and creating opportunities for greater participation of women farmers.
As a black woman-founded social enterprise, the participation of and empowerment of women farmers in our communities to take greater control of livelihood improvement opportunities is a critical piece of our shared vision for collective success.
What makes Tchakka Origins’ products exceptional is the combination of carefully sourced base raw materials, from plants indigenous to Ethiopia with a natural extraction process to achieve high-functioning chemical compositions and nutrients.
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