The greatest tasting cashews under the sun are transforming lives in Mozambique, Africa by providing a market for cashew growers, training and employing adult orphans, and caring for orphans and vulnerable children.
2. • Grown, Roasted and Packaged in Mozambique to preserve freshness
• Employs 30 young Men and Women who grew up as orphans or on the streets
• 90 % of proceeds go to supporting cashew farming communities and orphan
care centers in Mozambique
• Free from contamination with peanuts and other tree nut varieties
The Sunshine Nut Difference
3. July 2011
Don & Terri Larson and their
family move from Philadelphia
area to Mozambique to start
Sunshine Nut Co.
October 2012
Sunshine Nut Co. purchases
an existing building outside of
Maputo and begins renovation
and equipment installation
October 2013
Sunshine Nut Co. hires
and trains 30 young
Men and Women most
of whom were orphans
March 2014
Sunshine Nut Company
launches in South Africa
with Pick n Pay
October 2014
Sunshine Nut Co.
launches in the
USA with Ahold
January 2015
Sunshine Nut Co.
launches in five
regions with Whole
Foods Markets
May 2015
Sunshine Nut Co.
Founder Don Larson
gives a TEDx talk on
Social business
May 2015
The Sunshine Approach
Foundation gets non-
profit status – it serves
to direct co. earnings to
development initiatives
October 2015
Sunshine Nut Co.
launches an exclusive
bulk program with
Whole Foods
Coming Soon!
7. Our Goal: Mini- Factory
Concept
• Cashews flow in, hand-ups flow back!
• Build a network of in-country processing facilities that touches
multiple cashew growing regions
• Bring employment to regions lacking in economic opportunity
• Factories have an additional room which serves as a “Community
Center” – proving healthcare, agriculture extension, microfinance,
education, tree planting
• Provides the opportunity to get organic, fair trade, and additional
certifications
• Factory’s provide a network to expand into other ‘Sunshine Foods’