Community
Every bean that goes into your cup of coffee is the fruit of hundreds of hours of hard work by countless different people…
…from the farmer harvesting his crop beneath a canopy of trees filled with sound and colour…
…his daughter running behind him with a hand-painted basket to pick up the cherries he’s dropped…
…while grandma roasts the beans from last year’s harvest to keep them fuelled and happy…
…to the eager young man monitoring the pulping machine at the washing station, dreaming of the day he starts his own coffee business…
…and the women sorting parchment coffee as it dries in the sun…
…and finally, the truck driver setting out on the highway to Djibouti, where his crate filled will all the flavours of Ethiopia will be shipped to roasters and drinkers all over the world…
…his daughter running behind him with a hand-painted basket to pick up the cherries he’s dropped…
…while grandma roasts the beans from last year’s harvest to keep them fuelled and happy…
…to the eager young man monitoring the pulping machine at the washing station, dreaming of the day he starts his own coffee business…
…and the women sorting parchment coffee as it dries in the sun…
…and finally, the truck driver setting out on the highway to Djibouti, where his crate filled will all the flavours of Ethiopia will be shipped to roasters and drinkers all over the world…
A lot of people pour their hearts into your cup. We want to make sure they enjoy the results as much as you do.
In order to do this, we need to ensure not only that our workers are properly paid, but that the community around them can live and work happily and healthily. Whether it is building a new road to create an all-weather access route for a remote village, providing clean drinking to people without a safe source of their own, or building a new school for local children, we sit down with the people we work with to find out what they need, and then we deliver.
In order to do this, we need to ensure not only that our workers are properly paid, but that the community around them can live and work happily and healthily. Whether it is building a new road to create an all-weather access route for a remote village, providing clean drinking to people without a safe source of their own, or building a new school for local children, we sit down with the people we work with to find out what they need, and then we deliver.
Below is a selected list of projects we are currently pursuing with our coffee communities:
- Building a school in Anderacha;
- Renovating the local school near our Bochesa site and supplying it with adequate classroom and learning materials;
- Installing a clean water pump at each site to supply safe drinking water to the local community.
