Meet āluān.
We are women led. We intimately understand the difference we can make by removing the unique barriers that both women and men face, and support individuals to access opportunities.
Farmers.
We partner with 500 small holder farmers who supply the highest quality farm fresh coconuts for processing. Farmers receive higher margins for their organic certified coconuts.
Our mission is to replant 5,000ha of old coconut plantations on the farmers land while conserving forest and biodiversity.
Meet Jane.
Jane steers the āluān ship and forever tries to divert our precious funding toward community initiatives and wildlife projects - meaning we sometimes have to go without basic stationery. Jane has a militantly positive disposition and still hedges her bets on the human race successfully reaching a utopian green economy. Jane has a borderline creepy connection to nature to the point where she’s recently started to undergo photosynthesis
Meet Wiza.
Farwiza Farhan is āluān's Company Director, lionhearted environmental activist, and deep coconut enthusiast. Wiza heads up Forest, Nature & Environment Aceh (HAkA), an NGO dedicated to combatting extinction in Sumatra's Leuser Rainforest Ecosystem. She got a bit famous in Indonesia - her work in the Leuser was featured in Leonardo Dicaprio’s documentary ‘Before the Flood’. and her impact on community-driven conservation was recognised at the 'Green Oscars', A.K.A the 2016 Whitley Award.
To us she is the Wiza who hugs us when it's needed, and the one who does the boring, difficult, but most important things that others may not notice.
Meet Irna.
Irna is our General Manager. Irna grew up in Aceh and studied post graduate finance in Germany. With an incredibly sharp mind, Irna leads our day to day operations and is always once step ahead than the rest of us. Irna has a passion for women's justice which imbues her work and for which we are greatful.
Meet Luke.
Meet Luke. Luke is āluān's telepathist with a sharp eye set on the future. A most unusual concoction of 1 part tree-hugger, 1 part economist, Luke is the conceptual brain that realised we could use this renewable, abundant coconut resource and improve community livelihoods. Luke permeates throughout all areas of āluān from farm to market. In those rare off-the-clock moments Luke stops peeling spreadsheets and instead takes to the waves at Mahi-Mahi, the eco-surf-resort he founded on the same Island we create our products on.