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Bikes to Rawanda - Wonderful

Wednesday, October 15th, 2008

It looks like this video has been out for a while, but I just came across it and love the message. Good Magazine features the collaboration between the Karaba Coffee Co-op and the Portland, Oregon coffee roaster that buys its coffee. By providing bikes it has solved the problem of lugging huge bags of coffee through the unpaved hills of Rwanda, boosted production, and given birth to a new non-profit.

Lugging huge bags of coffee through the unpaved hills of Rwanda to a processing plant was back-breaking work for the Karaba coffee co-op. In this original GOOD video see how a collaboration between Karaba and a Portland, Oregon, coffee roaster has solved that problem, boosted production, and given birth to a new non-profit.

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