What we do
Led by serial entrepreneur, Yolanda Busbee Methvin, LithaFlora African Botanicals & Sourcing was born out of a commitment to collaborate with African youth and women based employment/job creation initiatives, community based social enterprises and the urge to connect all between earth, sea and sky taking form on the African continent.
Inspired by a visit to South Africa in 1992, just two years after the release from jail of Nelson Mandela and a year before the complete repeal of South Africa’s dark days of Apartheid, American born Yolanda Methvin, returned to South Africa in 1998 with a Husband and plan for a “one year, working holiday”. 21 years later, a Permanent Resident with two children, two dogs and with three businesses under her belt, Methvin comments –
“For as long as I can recall, I’ve been a Social Entrepreneur. To me, social entrepreneurship offers the opportunity to engage creativity, compassion and to find impactful collaborative solutions to common human problems. Using indigenous African wisdom systems and their complements has allowed me to feel confident in pursuit of those values and to bring them to life commercially, for myself, my family, yours and hopefully generations to come.”
