Building Bridges
A year after we began roasting we looked to see what we could do in addition to the 1% of all revenue we donate to Women’s Aid. We had a meeting at the roastery with Howard Barwick of Covoya. Covoya act as an exporter for our biggest supplier of coffee at the roastery which is the ASOPEP co-op in Colombia.
I’ve known Howard for a long time. He was a former competition barista, coffee roaster and all round very very decent human being. I asked him if there was anything we could do for the people of ASOPEP and he said yes there was. This is how our bridge building started and we’ve now completed four of them.
Monika, our Head of Quality took the opportunity to visit ASOPEP where she met with some amazing people and saw first hand some of the bridges we’ve funded. She came back with stories of the tangible benefits these structures have helped to bring such as making journeys to school for the children of the co-op safer along with easing the burden of coffee transportation. Below are some photos of before where one of our bridges was built and a video after its completion.
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