This is a village woman from Yapala, one of the rural villages with a Presbyterian church near Tamale. She has collected shea nuts for processing into shea butter. Shea butter provides a source of income for many rural women in northern Ghana. She will boil and stir the nuts for many hours over a hot fire. It is arduous and time-consuming work. Despite many efforts reported on the internet to organize "fair-trade" cooperatives for shea butter production, these women see little of the profits from this highly sought product. It has been called "women's gold" but instead has been a golden opportunity for exploitation.