Social corporate responsibilities
At Kikobero we believe in family and sharing. Every profit or donation we receive is ploughed back to supporting our farming communities.
- We have established schools for community education
- Sponsored over 1,000 children to access educational service through our Wakeup schools and other higher-level institutions of learning.
- We have fundraised for community health through which we have equipped community hospitals, repaired over 300 clip pallets, distributed more than 2,000 blankets to keep a child’s night warm, distributed over 1,000 gumboots among, distributed sanitary pads to keep a girl child in school among other interventions.
- We have trained over 500 pastors and spread God’s Gospel to restore hope amongst the communities
- We have conducted several trainings that aim at mindset change of our people among other interventions.
Job creation for youth and women in coffee
To ensure sustainable socio-economic transformation of the Kikobero coffee farming communities, we work with men, youth and women along the value chain. During the coffee season, we train, skill and create employment opportunities to over 100 youth and women at different stages of the value chain like at ready red cherry hand picking, washing, transportation, sorting, drying, milling, packaging, marketing etc. Many of the women and youth that we work with have been able to make a difference within their respective communities.
Environmental protection
Our environmental pillar ensures that we give adequate attention to the protection of the natural environment. As coffee farmers and processors, we think about both the short- and long-term effects on the environment as a result of our farming methods and other human activities. At Kikobero speciality coffee, we exercise water source protection, safe waste management, energy conservation, safe storage, disposal or reuse of packaging materials.
We build capacities of our farmers into climate smart and environmental protection practices like mulching, terracing, agroforestry, afforestation etc.