by Jesko Johannsen | Sep 10, 2018 | Coffee, Conference, Sustainability, Youth
Shaping the future of coffee cultivation is not only a question of marketing for the coffee value chain. A whole generation of rural youth in coffee producing regions is depending on that. That’s why we are happy that our Managing Director Michael Opitz is...
by Vanessa Sielmann | Jun 23, 2018 | Internship, Origin, Processing, Tanzania, Youth
Together with our partners Hanns R. Neumann Stiftung is working with young coffee farmers around the world. Coffee is a great and popular drink and we do not only support young coffee farmers’ future, we are also ensuring young coffee drinkers like Vanessa...
by Soha Yassine | Mar 6, 2018 | Coffee Kids, Gender, Youth
Our youth program, Coffee Kids has released its annual report. In Growing the Future: the Coffee Kids 2017 Annual Report we share inspiring stories of young farmers investing in coffee and their local community. Readers will learn how our focus on youth keeps coffee...
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...
