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 500,000 coffee farmers throughout Ethiopia’s coffee-growing regions. Its small farmer members create benefits for their communities through their engagement in fair trade, supporting improvements to schools, construction of coffee processing mills, provision of water pumps, and construction of health clinics.