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Roast: Medium-Light
Regions: Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Kenya
Price: $12.95
The Chido's Blend supports the work of the ZERI Foundation and its "pulp to protein" program in Africa, which turns coffee production waste into high-quality food.
Led by Chido Govero, a dynamic young woman from Zimbabwe, this ingenious program supports self-sufficiency by using coffee pulp and other wastes as a substrate for nutritious edible mushrooms, and the spent mushroom compost as feed for goats and other animals. Chido and ZERI recently won the "Sustainability Award" at the Specialty Coffee Association of America.Support One Woman’s Hope for the Future
What does coffee have in common with girls at risk in Africa? A determined young woman named Chido Govero, the author of “The Future of Hope.”
Chido never knew her father and witnessed her mother die from AIDS. Her uncle and cousin abused her—which she says is all too often “the price girls have to pay to have a shelter at a family’s plot of land.”
Coffee pulp played a key role in Chido’s independence. At the age of 12 she learned how to farm mushrooms using leaves, dead tree branches, water hyacinth, corncobs, and coffee pulp. Under the ZERI program “Orphan Teaches Orphans,” she is on a mission, convinced that the sure way girls can escape abuse is when they know how to provide for their own food security. And she is teaching them how.
Now 23, Chido has already trained a dozen other orphan girls how to grow mushrooms from coffee pulp. Her plan is to reach out and network throughout Africa to create jobs and stamp out hunger with what is locally available. For every bag sold, Equator will contribute $2.00 toward Chido’s work with orphan girls in coffee growing communities.
The Future of Hope To learn more about Chido read her autobiography: “The Future of Hope”. Book proceeds go toward Chido’s work.
Price: $9.99