Bloomberg Awards $10 Million for Women Coffee Farmers in Africa
Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $10 million grant to the Relationship Coffee Institute to expand its women's economic development program in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Announced during the U.S.-Africa Business Forum, the grant will enable an additional twenty thousand women to benefit from and participate in Africa's economic growth through training programs and access to the region's coffee market. Without access to knowledge, markets, and buyer networks, smallholder farmers, particularly women, miss opportunities to earn the income needed to feed their families and care for their communities. The institute, a nonprofit dedicated to improving the livelihoods of rural Rwandan women coffee farmers, connects women farmers to resources and global markets so they can meet the international demand for specialty coffee...