Maya is a food processing company specializing in grocery store products using an inclusive model through partnership with farmers in Mali. The company was one of the SMEs supported by UNCDF's IELD Programme. Seynabou Dieng, CEO of MAYA, is the 2021 Fellow Laureate for Sub-Saharan Africa by the Cartier's women initiative award, learn more about her story and Maya by watching the video above.

In 2018, I quit my job and I decided to dedicate my life to this. And we moved from my house into our first small processing unit when there was no longer room for my husband to enter the kitchen!