Table of Contents It’s early January, the excitement of the festive period left behind, resigned to negative temperatures and the UK’s miserable weather… we’re thankful we can escape it, for a week at least. 🇰🇪 New Adventures – Kenya 🇰🇪 Stepping out of Nairobi airport at 6am local time, somewhat
Table of Contents Introduction It’s late November 2022, Ian and I have travelled to Tanzania and the slopes of Kilimanjaro to visit the farmers, smallholders and friends that grow our coffee. For EA the relationships in Tanzania are the oldest we have and are a key part of our story.
Ethical Addictions purchased it’s first Africa coffee from the Machare farm on Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania. This journal entry features the first three issues of the Daily Espresso that were published in 2009. Reading these articles you will discover some of the projects that Ethical Addictions has been involved with
Back in June our friend in Cameroon, Matti Foncha, who we buy our Cameroon Boyo coffee from, uploaded a video to YouTube where he talks about how the coronavirus has affected him and coffee production. We have also included a transcript for people who would prefer to read rather than
Written by Jack Fresh from the trip to the Machare African coffee Farm and the surrounding smallholders in the foothills of Mount Kilimanjaro I am sitting, reflecting on the privilege it is to now be part of the EA journey, and to realise how great it is to have been
The civil war in the region is awful whilst barely making the news. A combination of no oil or rich natural resources, and other international distractions like Brexit, means a tragic story is unfolding with little awareness or assistance from the international community. That happens so often in our broken
We had hoped to be out in Cameroon at the end of this year and deepening our relationships with farmers, however that is now not going to be possible. We hope and pray for a swift and peaceful resolution, for the country and it’s people. When safe and possible we
BBC radio interview today about the latest trip to Tanzania and Ian becoming a tribal chief. To promote this interview, they took pictures and videos that Ian had recorded on location in Tanzania and turned it into this short video that was shared online. Video Transcript This is the first
Maji (water, in Swahili) is something we all take for granted here in the UK, yet it is essential to life, and our absolute privilege to live in a time and place where it is clean, drinkable and available all of the time at the turn of a tap. And
Matti Foncha came and visited us today in Gloucester. A coffee farmer himself, he also has a role representing his region and fellow farmers to develop trading relationships in Europe and North America. He has a small company to export coffee and service the farmers but he’s a man on
