Our Story

We purpose to offer excellent washed processed coffee for both the local and international markets.

goCoffee is a social business initiative that believes in giving people opportunities especially vulnerable communities; the tools to help themselves not handouts. We are committed to creating a deep, sustainable impact in the work of the small holder farmers so that they are able to improve their lives. Our business is to add value to what they are able to produce, look for markets for these products and at better prices.

Mission
We are doing business for a greater good; committed to bringing people together to solve the problem of poverty while thinking about the environment in a more sustainable way

Our CSR

Plant Coffee + Trees + Foodcrops

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We plant and also encourage/motivate coffee farmers to plant indigenous trees within the farmlands where we source coffee. In liaison with tree experts, agronomists and coffee farmers of each respective area, we buy the recommended trees and distribute to the farmers after sharing knowledge about the benefits of planting/having indigenous trees in their coffee plantations. Our target is twenty thousand (20,000) indigenous/native trees annually in specific coffee growing areas.

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We also encourage coffee farmers to plant food crops (that are compatible with coffee) either within the coffee plantations or in another piece of land. We promote this mandate because this ensures that the coffee farmers have food to feed their families especially when when the coffee season is off.

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We provide filtered drinking water to the communities around our coffee collection center in Bushenyi.

Doing it the traditional way

Originating from the Ethiopian coffee tradition, goCoffee aspires to introduce to the communities in Uganda a cultural beverage that build engaged communities and a community-based enterprise to advance social and economic development in the communities.

At goCoffee, we plan to continue introducing the coffee drinking culture where coffee ceremony is conducted every weekend, fresh green coffee is roasted, ground and brewed and served.

Invited neighbours sitting in a circle around green grass and flowers and the air is perfumed with incense. The host washes the coffee beans, roasts them in a pan on tiny charcoal stove, turning them regularly, grinds them with a pestle and mortar, then brews the coffee with water in a coffee pot until it starts to bubble. Nearby is an incense burner smoking with fresh grass scattered on the ground. When coffee is ready, it is served in tiny cups with sugar, honey and sometimes salt. The ceremony takes at least an hour. Then one of the community or group members conduct prayer for the well being of the community. The ceremony takes us to a time when value was given to human relation and social discourse.

goCoffee, is thus designed as an intensive, innovative, agribusiness venture tailor-made to be self sustainable and environmentally friendly.