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The story or Rwandan Coffee Beans
In 1994, Rwanda engaged in civil war along ethnic lines. In a matter of weeks, more than 600,000 Tutsi men were murdered. The survivors of genocide were the women and children of the Tutsi.
Left to fend for themselves, irrespective of ethnicity, the Tutsi and Hutu women made poverty their common enemy. As farmers of coffee beans, grown in the rich volcanic soil of the mountains, for safety and for flavor, their coffee beans became internationally known. Attracting Café Femenino, a women-owned organization, that formed cooperatives to make selling easier and safer. They had the pull to make sure farmers owned their land and were directly involved in every aspect of the business.
As a result, the farmers are influencing the economy and the culture of Rwanda. Women are now recognized for their work at home and on the farm, abuse has decreased, incomes have increased. Best of all, the rate of girls attending schools has skyrocketed.
Just think, your morning mug of coffee is helping improve lives in a poverty-stricken country. And what a mug of flavor it is. The beans are sweeter with hints of citrus. Wonderfully suited for blending with their Tanzanian cousin’s coffee beans.
Tanzanian Coffee Beans Are Reshaping the Country’s Future
Tanzania has been a historically impoverished country, depending on tourism and safaris to maintain GDP. However, coffee beans had been a known quantity since the 1500s, but it wasn’t roasted and for drinking, it was eaten and chewed to keep warriors awake on campaigns.
Noticing the love of coffee drinks, they entered the market, the individual, small farmers joining cooperatives to process and sell to international markets. Coffee connoisseurs quickly discovered the uniquely flavored beans, influenced by the high-altitude, volcanic soil. The Tanzanian Peaberry blend, in particular, caught coffee-drinker’s tastebuds.
Climbing the ladder of Tanzanian GDP, these beans make drastic changes in the cultural and economy, displacing safaris as a required activity.
By drinking your mug of coffee, you’re actually protecting endangered species from hunters. That should sweeten your coffee!