A ‘Sisterhood’ That Is Spreading Coffee Aroma To Your Cups

For the ninth year running, Vision Group, together with the Embassy of the Netherlands, KLM Airlines, dfcu Bank and Koudijs Animal Nutrition, is running the Best Farmers competition. The 2024 competition runs from April to November, with the awards in December. Every week, Vision Group platforms will publish profiles of the farmers. Winners will walk away with sh150m and a fully paid-for trip to the Netherlands.

Bayaaya is a Lumasaba word meaning ‘sisterhood’.

Meridah Nandudu explains that she named her farm Bayaaya Specialty coffee, since she wanted to use the coffee business to empower women economically, as many were suffering due to gender-based violence.

These women depended on their abusive husbands, who sometimes did not provide for them, which pushed some of the women into prostitution.

Bayaaya specialty coffee originates from the Elgon mountains, the home of Arabica coffee and was started as a tool to help women that had suffered domestic violence and young mothers, to fight poverty.

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