Project Waterfall - Ethiopia

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We are proudly partnering with the charity Project Waterfall with our Worka Wuri washed coffee from Ethiopia!

For each bag sold, we'll donate 10% to Project Waterfall, a charity that creates better conditions for coffee growers worldwide.

Project Waterfall does fantastic work bringing clean water, sanitation and education to coffee-growing communities across the world. And since 2011, it has raised over £1.5 million to change the lives of more than 70,000 people in Nicaragua, Tanzania, Rwanda, Vietnam, Uganda, Kenya and Ethiopia.

We fell in love with Worka Wuri years ago, so we are always excited to have secured more bags of this sought-after coffee again this year. This harvest has even more sweetness and fruit than the last and tastes great as a filter and V60. It is a fantastic representation of the complexity of washed coffees from Ethiopia.

Worka Wuri is the name of the Washing Station, situated near the town of Gedeb in Southern Ethiopia. Around 650 smallholder farmers harvest ripe cherries and bring them to the wet mill to be carefully sorted, pulped and fermented for 36-48 hours. The seeds are then graded by density before being dried in the sun on raised African Beds.

There is meticulous care given to these coffees at all stages. The coffee is protected from the hot sun and covered between 12pm and 3pm and at night-time, covered again to protect it from rainfall and moisture. Once the coffee has fully dried to the right moisture level it is transported to Addis Ababa for dry-milling, grading, intensive sorting and handpicking, before being bagged in GrainPro for export and into the hands of excited Roasters, like ourselves!