When I came to Kenya, I expected to get amazing coffee considering I was drinking amazing coffee at the compound from Kenya. Everyone in Kenya drinks chai however and the coffee in everywhere but the rich areas of Nairobi is awful. All the great coffee is exported. My family grows a small amount of coffee and I realized how difficult it is to produce and make even the minimal living off of it.
Joshua took me to the local coffee factory to show me how the beans are sorted by grade and peeled. Coffee is super complex, time consuming, and labor intensive.
Think about where your coffee comes from next time you drink it.
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"I'd like to tell people in your place that the drink they are enjoying is the cause of all our problems. We grow it with our sweat and sell it for nothing." Lawrence Seguya, Uganda.
About 25 million people depend on growing coffee but barely any of the money that we pay for a cup of coffee ever reaches them.
After hitting a 30-year low in 2001, the price of coffee has begun to recover. But the extra cents in no way signal an end to the coffee crisis. Despite higher prices, small-scale farmers still cannot earn a decent income. The coffee crisis has become a disaster whose impacts will be felt for a very long time to come.
Make Trade Fair' s long-term coffee campaign
Since 2001, Oxfam has campaigned to help coffee farmers around the world to get a better price for their coffee. As well as providing grants to coffee cooperatives in Central America and Africa, Oxfam promotes Fair Trade and provides support to organisations representing the interests and voices of small and family coffee farmers in poor countries around the world.
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