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What a beautiful celebration of 25 years! 🎉✨

From touring our premises and impact projects to honoring founding members, awarding our first anchor, MINADEF , and paying tribute to individuals who made a difference, this milestone was truly one for the books.

We also celebrated the incredible partners who’ve walked this journey with us: , FSC/Rwanda, , Ltd, , , , , , , BDF, , , and . International coffee buyers were also recognized for their unwavering support. ☕🤝
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Celebration with impact:
🐄 25 cows were distributed to farmers through our livestock support program, bringing the total to over 400 cows since 2008.
📚 21 students graduated from the Musasa Coffee School, investing in skills and livelihoods.
💰 Dividends and premiums were paid to members.
🏆 The Ministry of Defence received a trophy for their long-standing support.

We also honored former RDF staff who made a difference in our early days, including Col (Rtd) Eugene Haguma and Jérôme Mureramanzi, among many others whose contributions left a mark.

The celebration ended with a toast, cake, and farmers heading home with cash dividends, a garden fork, and a bag of coffee. 🎂🧑🌾☕
Thank you everyone who joined us.
Here’s to many more years of impact and growth. 🥂

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9. Environmental Stewardship
We stand with farmers to confront climate change, through shade tree intercropping, training in best agricultural practices, and providing bicycles that reduce emissions and ease mobility.

Our commitment is backed by decades of certified excellence:

✅ Fairtrade (since 2005)
✅ Rainforest Alliance
✅ Organic
✅ Café Practices
✅ ISO 9001:2015

Beyond the fields, Musasa Coffee Tourism invites you to experience sustainable farming firsthand.

Because protecting the land means protecting the livelihoods it sustains. ☕🌱

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8. Reinvestment Grant
We don’t just grow coffee. We grow communities..
In 2025, we awarded grants to two cooperatives, selected from a large pool of applicants to revitalize their value chains beyond coffee. Thank you to for making this possible.

🔹 COAGI (Ruli sector): 10 million RWF
🔹 COPROSEBU (Busengo sector): 6 million RWF

Both invested in maize processing machinery and launched their own processing plants.

The result?
✔️ New revenue streams
✔️ Added value to local produce
✔️ Jobs created
✔️ Stronger communities beyond coffee

Charity sees the need.
Community investment builds the cause.

7. Musasa Early Childhood Development Centre (ECD)
Musasa ECD opened in 2025 with support from the Australian coffee community.
In the remote hills of Dukunde Kawa, women carried a double burden: demanding harvest work and the weight of motherhood. With no safe place for their children, toddlers faced malnutrition and neglect. Mothers were torn, between a paycheck and a child’s well-being.
Then came change.
The Rambagirakawa women’s group built an Early Childhood Development center, right at Ruli CWS where mothers work.
In just one year, more than 92 children have benefited from the center.
🔹 Nearly 200g gained monthly. Healthier. Stronger.
🔹 Days filled with song, play, and learning
🔹 Mothers’ efficiency up 30%
🔹 Absenteeism nearly gone
🔹 Incomes up. Peace of mind? Priceless.
A daily meal from the center’s garden fights stunting and teaches sustainable practices families take home.
What started as childcare became holistic community health.

And we’re just getting started. Soon, this center expands into a full kindergarten, welcoming 200 toddlers into early learning that prepares them for primary school and a future far beyond the coffee fields.
Where mothers work, children thrive.
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5. Musasa Coffee School ☕️🌱

Founded in 2021, Musasa Coffee School equips the next generation with essential coffee skills, from farming and barista training to cupping and quality analysis, alongside vocational trades like tailoring and weaving.

Over 300 youth have been trained in coffee farming, with 90+ graduates completing advanced coffee programs.

By connecting training to real opportunities in hospitality and the coffee sector, we are creating careers, not just courses. Vocational skills also provide off-season income, helping young people stay rooted in their communities.

We are proud to have employed some graduates, while 20+ youth have been connected to partners across the coffee industry. Others are actively engaged in creative local businesses, contributing to the broader economy.

This dynamic group has now evolved into a youth-led initiative, Imboni (“Vision”), which has rented a collective coffee plot and is preparing to launch its own youth-produced coffee in the near future. Hope to serve this new, futuristic coffee with you soon.

We’re here for the long haul, building a skilled, passionate workforce and strengthening Rwanda’s coffee communities from within. 🇷🇼✨