12. December | Cafe des Mamas - Rwanda Filter

Café des Mamas is grown and processed in Rwanda by Agnes Mukamushinja and her team at the Nova Washing Station. What many don't know: The coffee industry is a women's business, except that women tend to work behind the scenes as pickers, sorters, farmers - so they do the real hard work. Agnes Mukamushinja has been the owner of Nova since 2013. She puts special focus on the quality of the coffees and the working conditions of her employees. With each passing year, Agnes is becoming more successful with this model and is gaining more independence for herself and her team at the Nova Washing Station.Agnes is convinced that women are at least as capable of running excellent farms. "Once the ladies are well off, the whole nation is well off!"She also supports her female employees outside of the coffee business, teaching them tailoring, for example, so that everyone is taken care of in the off-season. She covers treatment costs and provides electricity and water connections for neighboring houses. You can find out more about the project on the Nova Coffee website.

Zusammenarbeit: a few years
Farmer/ Produzent: Agnes Mukamushinja
Betreiberform: Womenproject - owner lead washing station

Land, Region: RW, Gicumbi
Anbauhöhe: 1.450 masl
Bodentyp: vulcanic soil
Düngemethode: organic
Schattentyp: grown in shadow
Ort der Verarbeitung: on the farm
Anzahl der Varietäten: different
Erntezeit: Mar - Jun