Rwanda - Women's Coffee Extension - Kawa Yacu Natural

Meet the Rwanda Women's Coffee Extension—a game-changing project from the Mbizi Washing Station! Founded in 2017 by producers Aline Christine and Odette Uwamariya, this all-women cooperative is amplifying female voices in Rwanda's specialty coffee community. This particular lot showcases their natural process expertise, delivering a creamy and fruit forward profile that's worth every sip. Check out all the info below and grab yours before it's gone!

We Taste: Raspberry, Kiwi, Jammy
Process: Natural
Varietal: Bourbon
MASL: 1700

From our pals at Royal NY:
This special lot comes to us from the Women Coffee Extension (WCE) at the Mbizi Coffee Washing Station. Founded in 2017 by Aline Christine and Odette Uwamariya, the WCE is a women’s coffee cooperative focused on creating a space for female specialty coffee  producers to have a stronger voice in Rwanda coffee production. Today, the WCE has over 700 female coffee producer members!
The WCE is focused on educating and empowering their members. They offer services such as family planning, nutrition programs, agricultural practices and even providing cows and goats to their members. These initiatives have changed the lives of many of their members. Coffee production has increased from 3 kgs to 4 kgs per tree. The washing station moved from producing 3 containers to 6 containers of green coffee. 
Looking forward, WCE has goals to continue to expand programs for the benefit of their members. They are currently working on Rain Forest certification in order to increase the premium of their coffee. In the future, they have goals to provide cows to all of their members, cover health insurance for a majority of members, build a sewing center for young people in order to create new jobs and even build a Nursery School to help the kids in the area, to name a few!