History

Abahuzamugambi ba Kawa Maraba Cooperative’s mission is to combat poverty through the production of high-quality, competitive coffee. Founded in 1999 as an association and legally established as a cooperative in 2002, the cooperative now operates four coffee washing stations, a dry mill, and a cupping lab. With 1,561 members, the cooperative produces between 6 and 10 containers of green coffee annually. It is fully Fair Trade certified, with one of its coffee washing stations also certified organic. Abahuzamugambi ba Kawa Maraba offers a range of specialty coffees, including women-produced coffee, natural coffee, and honey-processed coffee.

Mission

Support coffee farmers in boosting both the quality and quantity of their production through guidance from our agronomists. Small farmer groups have been formed to encourage collaboration and mutual support.

Key Achievements

They offer high-quality coffee, maintain two established markets, and have robust infrastructure, a network of diverse stakeholders, and strong member ownership within the cooperative.

Farmer engagement

They do have a farmer’s saving and credit fund, we supply the different shade trees and cooking stove to preserve environment, we support our members in some coffee farming activities like planting new coffee, making coffee extension, replacing the old coffee trees, to prepare compost, etc.