Coffee from Uganda

In 2003, a Ugandan farmer walked door-to-door asking his Muslim, Christian, and Jewish neighbors to leave behind a history of conflict and unite to face their struggle against poverty caused by low coffee prices. The farmers came together and founded a cooperative to build peace and prosperity in their community.

Thanksgiving Coffee helped the 200 co-op members form the new intertribal/interfaith cooperative called the Namanyonyi Community of Shalom Coffee Cooperative. We are proud to have been their first and primary buyer for nearly 20 years.

Since that initial investment, we came to learn that the biggest challenge in the daily lives of these Ugandan farmers was the lack of clean drinking water. The average family spent 60% of their income on medical expenses. So we partnered with an amazing organization to create water filters with materials and labor from the co-op’s local community, funded with rebates from the sale of each package of Delicious Peace. To date, we’ve raised over $116,000 and plan to continue the program to protect the well-being of even more coffee-farm communities. Learn more about this amazing program…

This sweet and full-bodied coffee features the peaceful notes of pecan and nutmeg, pleasantly assertive milk chocolate, marzipan, and subtle perfume of fresh vanilla bean.