Naa PaulAisha Eco-Village

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Our Story

My name is Princess Aisha Sibri.

Naa PaulaAisha Eco-Village is the nonprofit that I co-founded with my husband, Paul Heynneman. We founded Naa PaulAisha Eco-Village to expand my early efforts to help my people in Northern Ghana, where I was born.

I grew up in a small village near the rural city of Tamale, which is the capital of the northern region of Ghana. I went to a Catholic vocational school where I learned how to sew, do handwork and speak English. These skills have helped me build a good life for myself and my son as a young single mother, both when I was still living in Ghana as well as after immigrating to the United States and initially worked as a seamstress.

I came to the United States in 1991 around the time a civil war broke out in my homeland in Ghana. I was very fortunate to have gotten out when I did and I realized early that I had an opportunity to help my village from my new home. After some time working as a seamstress, I also began selling my organic handmade Shea butter as well as African arts and crafts that either I made personally or that people in my village made. I continue to sell these in the United States and send money and supplies back to Africa. I have been doing what I can to help for the last few decades.

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