The strategy of the project is to implement healthy ecological methods and a quality oriented processing technology, to expand the infrastructure of the region, as well as teaching and training the farmers associated with the Kanyovu Cooperative. In addition, a side project simply called The Tree Project has been started, giving the coffee importers an optional chance to help fight deforestation, which is a major concern in the area. The added price amount, decided by the coffee importers themselves, is earmarked for the planting of trees. One for the future, you might say.

The coffee itself is, as far as my taste buds can tell, a trademark East African coffee: clean and smooth with a balanced acidity, but never dull with a rich body and hints of fruits and berries. One for the future, I say.

Personally, I have a lot of faith in this kind of assistance to self-help projects. Especially when it comes to African coffee producers, who often have lots of natural resources, but lack a system to make use of them and at the same time to make sure the trading is fair. Economic support, in combination with the constitution of these systems for processing, preserving, trading and educating, may well be the way to give African countries the position they deserve in the international coffee trade.