The Gitesi Project is a grassroots initiative founded in 2015.
We're on a mission to improve the lives of Rwandan coffee farming families, and you can help.
The Gitesi Project is a grassroots initiative founded in 2015.
We're on a mission to improve the lives of Rwandan coffee farming families, and you can help.
Each year, our supporters donate their time and skills to roast, pack, and sell coffee from the Gitesi washing station. 100% of the sale price funds our grassroots program that places dairy cows directly with smallholder coffee farmers in the Gitesi community.
The gifting of cows to under-resourced households is a practice known as a Girinka program, and in the case of these smallholder farmers can be an invaluable resource—providing their families milk for nourishment and sale, as well as organic fertiliser for their crops.