Coffee

The town of Minova and the surrounding areas in the Democratic Republic of Congo were subjected to four days of vandalism, looting and violence towards the end of November 2012. Members of Sopacdi, one of Twin’s producer partners in the region, were directly affected and the cooperative’s commercial operations were suspended. Thankfully, Sopacdi’s head offices and its coffee producing infrastructure were not damaged during these events and business resumed on 2 December 2012.

With funding from DFiD‘s FRICH programme, Twin is working with a consortium of businesses to develop unique gourmet coffees from the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and bring them to market through Sainsbury’s in the UK.

The DRC coffee will be produced by Twin member co-operative Sopacdi, an inspiring organisation working to rebuild coffee production in its corner of the war-scarred East Congo region.

Last week the Bududa District of Mount Elgon, Uganda, was hit by a landslide which engulfed three villages and killed an estimated 18 people (reported by both the Uganda Red Cross Society and Uganda’s daily newspaper New Vision).

This is the third such landslide in as many years. In March 2010, following extremely heavy rains, a devastating landslide killed over 300 people in the Bududa District and a further 35 people lost their lives in August 2011.

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