Organic Congo Coffee – Beans 1kg – Kivu

Coffee Identity: Cooperative: SOPACDI Altitude of the plots: 1460 - 2000m Coffee tree species: 100% Arabica Varieties of coffee trees: Bourbon, Catimore, Drying process: Washed (Fully Washed) and Natural Harvest: March to June - September to December Date of foundation: 2008 Roast: Light Perco Tasting Notes: Kivu is a coffee with notes of acacia flower, yellow fruit and panela The human story of this cafe: The SOPACDI cooperative, founded in 2008 in Minova and which now has 12,100 coffee growers (including 3,800 women) has revived from its ashes the coffee sector in the Kivu region, victim of the civil war, population displacements following the genocide in Rwanda and the economic crisis. With access to the legal coffee market blocked, many producers risk their lives crossing Lake Kivu into Rwanda, where the smuggled coffee trade is more profitable. The Sopacdi cooperative has installed a washing station that can process more than 3 tons of coffee per hour. The premiums from the sale of fair trade coffee allow the construction of infrastructure and the improvement of living conditions in the villages of producers affiliated to Sopacdi (construction of mills to grind cassava and schools where French and English.)