Developed and managed by the international technical expertise firm, Africa Resilience Partners, whose head office is located in the Togolese capital, Lomé, Vaelco is a network of West African artisans who are experts in the traditional transformation of natural raw materials from West Africa. All the members of the Vaelco network are entrepreneurs operating in the large informal sector characteristic of African economies. Each of the workshops of our member artisans is the final link in a chain of actors from West Africa. Thanks to our ambition to sell on an international scale, creations whose composite materials are 90% from the natural spaces of the continent, we wish to contribute to the development of inclusive West African economies. PROMOTING West African know-how, economically and socially raising the players in our value chains, CONNECTING them to each other, before doing so with consumers around the world, this is the mission that the VAELCO network.