by Jesko Johannsen | Jul 21, 2018 | Coffee, Hands-on, Tanzania
Hands-On in Tanzania Figures Improving The Lives of Young Coffee Farmers Abel Gabriel Bisibanas is writing and writing and writing. Most of the time it’s of accounting figures written by his pencil. “It’s good that I am writing a lot”, he laughs. “More figures...
by Jesko Johannsen | May 9, 2018 | Podcast, Sustainability
Our team member Jan von Enden got the opportunity to talk about Sustainability in the coffee sector in the “Sustainability Dialogues”-Podcast produced by the Sustainable Agriculture Network – SAN. Topics were the challenges and trends of the coffee...
by Jesko Johannsen | Mar 11, 2018 | Latin America, Youth
“I always had the dream to immigrate to the US and become a doctor. My parents are coffee farmers in the Municipality of Fraternidad, Honduras; but I never truly envisioned myself as a farmer due to the challenges I saw my parents face to ensure there was food on the...
by Jesko Johannsen | Feb 27, 2018 | Origin, Uganda, Youth
“I dropped out of school because I couldn’t pay the tuition fees at the age of 18”, remembers Ruth “I then started picking coffee as farmworker to earn some money.” Ruth is now 25 years old and lives in Mityana, Uganda. Her aim has been to take a tailoring course in...
by Jesko Johannsen | Feb 2, 2018 | Coffee, Tanzania
A coffee plant in a Hamburg office building: Our team member Hermann Kouassi from Ivory Coast is well surprised; “It is very good to see it growing even here. But we have better cherries”, he smiles. Hermann is visiting us at Headquarters in Hamburg to exchange work...
