A member of the cooperative sorting and drying coffee
Mokona Hirbayee with Tadesse Meskela, Oromia Coffee Farmer's Co-operative Union
Ahimed Mumad Hassan stands beside coffee cherries
Mohammed Hassan teaching in a school funded by fair trade premiums
Oromia Coffee Farmers’ Cooperative Union
Ethiopia
Oromia is a co-operative union representing more than 200,000 coffee farmers throughout Ethiopia’s coffee-growing regions. Its members receive benefits through the use of premiums earned on fair trade sales which fund improvements to schools, construction of mills, provision of water pumps, and construction of health clinics.