Taste of Africa
A Safari full of Flavour
African coffee – Rwenzori from Uganda
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Rwenzori Prestige (Click here to order)
This richly aromatic coffee is made from the finest arabica beans (from the coffee plant Coffea arabica) grown and harvested at hundreds of small coffee plantations on the lower slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains in Western Uganda. It has been roasted and packaged to the highest standards. The result is a medium roast full-bodied coffee that leaves a lingering smoothness on your tongue. It is the coffee to spoil yourself with!
Rwenzori Prestige is freshly roasted, in fact it’s still steaming hot, when packaged into airtight bags of 200 g. Squeeze the bag for the one-way seal to release its’ wonderful aroma! It brews excellently in a plunger or in an ordinary coffee maker.
Rwenzori
Gold (Click here to order)
This full-bodied strongly aromatic coffee is a dark
roast with an immediate presence. If you were captured
by Rwenzori Prestige, this coffee cousin will not
disappoint you! Silimar to Rwenzori Prestige, Rwenzori
Gold contains the finest arabica beans grown and
harvested at hundreds of small coffee plantations on the
lower slopes of the Rwenzori Mountains in Western
Uganda.
Rwenzori Gold is freshly roasted, in fact it’s still
steaming hot, when packaged into airtight bags of 200 g.
Squeeze the bag for the one-way seal to release its’
wonderful aroma! It brews excellently in a plunger or in
an ordinary coffee maker.
We give something back to Africa
Previously in this space we told about a social development project that was called ’Give Africa Trade not Aid’ coming from an initiative of a Ugandan businessman. His philosophy was to give the people in Uganda employment, education, and health care by selling the Rwenzori coffee and plough back 50% of its returns into the villages that grow the coffee. This sounds like an extraordinarily good and generous idea! Perhaps even too good to be carried out in reality...Today, the Rwenzori Coffee Company has a new owner.
Because Taste of Africa believes in the idea of giving Africa ’Trade not Aid’, we continue to sell the Rwenzori coffee. In December 2007, we initiated a new support project with help from the Rwenzori Coffee Company. This project will support a pre-school school for previously disadvantaged children in South Africa, in our village Stanford's informal settlement. The school’s name is Funimfundo (in Xhosa it means ‘seeking knowledge’) and it has been running successfully since 2004. It is an initiative by an organisation called Food 4 Thought (a registered non-government organisation, www.f4t4kids.co.za ), aiming to give small children ages 3-6 a safe environment where they get education, nutritious food and play while their parents are working.During 4 years, Taste of Africa and the Rwenzori Coffee Company together donated 2 rands (2 Swedish Crowns) to this school for every packet of coffee sold. In December 2011 Rwenzori Coffee Company discontinued their support, unfortunately. But we continue to support the Funimfundo school. We visit them every year and help out by buying building supplies, correspodning to 1 rand (1 Swedish Crown) per packet of Rwenzori coffee sold.
This has happened...
Since we first visited the pre-school in 2006, the
outside environment really has improved. They have built
a new jungle gym, planted trees and laid out small
paths. Every day, teachers and children work together in
their new vegetable garden, and the children eat their
own veggies. In October 2007 we bought building material
for an office for the teachers.
There’s a building next to Funiumfundo that is now used as a pre-school for very young children ( 0-3 years). These children now have an attractive and safe yard with a fench and toys where they can play.
In March 2011 the school got a new spacious classroom and three new toilets. We helped to buy building material for the ceiling and paint for the floor in the new classroom. Many of the parents helped to paint the walls inside.
In Uganda - space is never a problem...