Category: delicious peace coffee
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The Miraculous Reality of Fair Trade Coffee Farming
Our first trip to Mirembe Kawomera (“Delicious Peace”) Coffee Co-op, located in the village of Namanyoni on the outskirts of Mbale, Uganda, was in 2006. The co-op had been founded just two years earlier, the idea of regional leader JJ Keki who sought a market for local farmers’ coffee as well as a way to overcome historical…
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Returning to Uganda
I remember the first full day of our initial trip to Uganda in October 2006 to produce a documentary about Mirembe Kawomera (“Delicious Peace”) Coffee Co-op. After three days of travel (one from NY to Europe, the second from there to Entebbe Airport, and the third by car up to the Mbale region), we…
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Whole Foods’ Do Something Reel Film Festival
Watch. Think. Act. These three verbs succinctly sum up the mission of the Do Something Reel Film Festival. Presented by Whole Foods Market, this festival is designed to highlight films that inspire change in their audiences. We were thrilled to learn that Whole Foods selected Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean as its…
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EnjoyYourCoffee.net Bridges Virtual and Real Over Love of Coffee
Virtual relationships created in EnjoyYourCoffee.net were transformed into real-life friendships when traveling to coffee houses of members in other parts of the world.
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Photo of the Week
Voices and Visions principal, Curt Fissel, took this photo while shooting Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean with our nonprofit documentary production company, Jem/Glo: Earlier this week, we sat down with Curt to discuss the art of photography.