Projects

Money down the toilet! 🚽

Whenever we are in East Africa, we’re not only checking coffee quality and sorting the next year’s crop, we are looking for opportunities to invest in communities and improve lives. We believe in the power of business to do good, and the ‘full circle’ whereby we not only trade directly,

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Africa

Cameroon Boyo ~ Impact of the Coronavirus

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

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Products

Introducing the r-cup

SHOP NOW We were so impressed with this product that we decided to stock it! If you are after a great product to drink your ethical filter coffee on the go, from then this is it. Here are five reasons why we love it: 100% leak proof* and easy to open/shut

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Farms

BBC video of EA water projects

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

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Farms

This kind of thing cheers us up….

We received a video last week from the Orera Village expressing thanks (in words and song!!)   Transcript “Thank You so much. I am so grateful that I received more money than I previously did. Thank you so much Ian … and please continue in the same spirit 😊”  “Firstly,

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African Coffee
Farms

Coffee process: Tanzania. Ethical Addictions Farm Direct

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

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