Kichao Water Project Do you remember we told you about Kichao village, Mweka, Tanzania? With no access to clean water, they had to walk 1-2km, 5 or 6 times every day to collect water for washing, drinking, cooking, cleaning and their animals, and it wasn’t even clean water! Well, with
It took me a while from hours of video and hundreds of photos but here is a short video to help better understand the processing of coffee on the farm in Tanzania. (The background music is sung by the Orera villagers where we also buy coffee!) https://youtu.be/d4hy6BPhmMU Transcript from Video
Many of you sent me out to Tanzania with comments and questions – the villagers loved that they could hear direct from those who enjoy their coffee and we had some fun in translation of the questions! Here are a few of their responses (I’ve paraphrased): What are your biggest
Here’s the latest from EA – a travel report from our latest trip to East Africa It really was an excellent trip and very encouraging on many levels. The most telling comment came form one of the farm managers one evening as we talked about trade and aid. We talked
Following our visit to the Orera village in December I want to share the following updates. The harvest was early and so most of the picking was done. All the beans were in the final days of drying before going to the mill and then being packed to send to
With the help of farm management from Machare and gifts from EA, the Orera Village were able to buy new land for the village nursery and for the central pulpery – further allowing them to develop their coffee production and coffee quality. EA remain committed to working with smallholders like
