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Ethiopia Photo Project
In relation to the Oromia Coffee School Project, Higher Grounds runs this awesome photo project on their website. Beyene works full time as a photographer of the farmers, raising awareness, and giving customers a first hand look at the realities coffee farmers face in Ethiopia. They donate 1$ of every bag of Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast sold on their website, as well as 1$ of every pound sold.
In collaboration with the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union and goNGOgo, Higher Grounds is pleased to take you on a weekly virtual visit to Ethiopia!
With a digital camera, a motorcycle and a laptop computer, Beyene (as in Vienna), who is based in the state of Sidamo in the town of Yirgacheffee in Southern Ethiopia, visits our partner farmers and documents their daily life as they work to provide us with the highest quality fair trade, organic, and shade grown coffees. Each week, you will visit the sites of new schools and health centers that have been built, managed and staffed by the very people who grow the finest
organic and fair trade coffees in the world. Buy our Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast, and visit each week to witness life in Sidamo while getting to know the very farmers who provide you with that tasty morning cup of fair trade coffee.
Purchase Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roast and Higher Grounds will tip the farmers $1 for every pound purchased.
Through this photo project, Beyene and Oromia Coffee Farmers Grower Union are hoping to expose coffee consumers throughout the world to the realities of an Ethiopian coffee grower. Higher Grounds is
supporting the cause by supporting the project and tipping the Ethiopian farmers $1 for every bag of Ethiopian Oromia Medium Roastsold on our website.
Funds raised through the Oromia Photo Project will be used to:
-Supply students and teachers with desks and office furniture
-Construct additional four class rooms at community school
-Supply medical equipment for the health post at Afursa Bangassa
-Develop a water system for the health post
Take a look at the amazing series of photos going up on the Higher Grounds website
Every week or so, new photos are going up with conversations that Beyene has with locals, describing life as a coffee farmer, or living in a coffee growing community.
