Updates recently from Beckham and Dorcas (students we had sponsored through Kira Farm with Amigos): Such encouragement to hear they are thankful for their training and opportunities. Both have returned home to implement their learning and start businesses (farming and building). Life remains tough but they feel they have hope
It’s been all over the news about the crash in the £ and how this will make things like coffee ‘jump’ in price next year – well, as with so much of the news there is some truth but not nearly as dramatic as they like to report! I’m sure
It honestly takes quite a lot to get me excited about a new product, often I think it’s a distraction or a hassle to stock, or maybe even a compromise on what I really want us to offer in way of quality, price or ethical value. But not with these
Autumn 2016 We Did It! You, us and the Kichao village! It took longer than we wanted it to, but this is Africa! Back-and-forth for nearly 15 years, you think I would have learned by now! We hoped to have this done in February but it finally happened in August
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
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
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,
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
