We have just launched our brand new Limited Edition Charity Coffee and we’re excited to tell you all about it!
Our new charity coffee is a delightful fully washed bean from Rwamatamu Coffee in Rwanda and will be supporting the Oasis Community Housing charity.
Oasis Community Housing are a homelessness charity working across the North East of England. They believe everyone facing homelessness deserves a hope and a future. Helping more than 1,000 people every year by providing housing and support and, more fundamentally, a place where they feel they can belong.
“Our values are at the heart of everything we do and are based on Christian principles, staying true to the mission that the group of students, who founded the charity, set out 40 years ago.”
Limited Edition Charity Coffee
Country: Rwanda
Region: Western Nyamashake Kivu
Producer: Rwamatamu Coffee
Altitude: 1800 – 2000 M.A.S.L.
Variety: Red Bourbon
Process: Fully Washed & Sun Dried
Sweet & Juicy – Vanilla – Raisin – Orange Blossom
Founded in 2015, Rwamatamu Coffee Ltd is a family run coffee farm and washing station, located in the Western province of Rwanda, where the landscape consists of picturesque rolling hills flanked around Lake Kivu in the Nyamasheke District. This region provides a tropical highland climate with an average temperature of 14 to 24 C and regular rainfall. This allows arabica coffee to flourish and results in a dense, hard bean with superior coffee flavour. Currently, they are also in the process of gaining their organic and fair-trade certifications.
Rwamatamu Coffee Ltd has 20 hectares of coffee plantation from where it harvests its own cherries alongside also working with and purchasing cherries from affiliate co-operatives, local producer families and smallholder farmers in the area. Their goal is to build healthy relationships with the community based on common values and goals. This is done by committing to a regular purchase of beans, investing in the growth of employees and working to have a positive social and economic impact on farmer communities, focusing on women in particular.
We will be adding more delicious Rwamutamu Coffee to our offerings in the future, but to begin this lovely new relationship, we’ve chosen their Washed Community Coffee to be our next Limited Edition Charity Coffee which this time round is in support of the Oasis Community Housing Charity. This wonderful charity does a lot of important work here in the North East to combat homelessness and once again we’re donating 20% of every Limited Edition Charity Coffee bag sold to them. Please help us help them fight homelessness and buy a bag of this delicious new Rwandan Coffee.
Oasis Community Housing are a homelessness charity working across the North East of England. They believe everyone facing homelessness deserves a hope and a future. Helping more than 1,000 people every year by providing housing and support and, more fundamentally, a place where they feel they can belong.
“Our values are at the heart of everything we do and are based on Christian principles, staying true to the mission that the group of students, who founded the charity, set out 40 years ago.”
With their motto ‘Hope. Not Homelessness’, Oasis Community Housing exist to reignite hope and a future for everyone facing homelessness. Believing in prevention and intervention, their four cornerstone services – Basis, Home, Empower, Aspire – address the immediate needs of the people they support and tackle the root causes of homelessness. Oasis Community Housing meets people where they are at and walks with them side by side, ensuring their support is tailored to each individual and led by the latest trauma-informed practice.
Thank you for buying our Rwandan Limited Edition Charity Coffee in aid of Oasis Community Housing. Every sip of your morning coffee will help provide ‘Hope. Not Homelessness’, as 20% from each bag sold will be donated to the Oasis Community Housing Charity.
We can’t wait to hear what you think of this wonderful new Charity Coffee! Make sure to tag us in your socials and spread the word as every sip of this coffee aids in the fight against poverty in County Durham!
Carina xo