Banyatereza Sisters Coffee Farm and Value Addition

we are daughters of st. therese of the child jesus, from the western part of uganda, east africa. our mission as a congregation is to evangelize by fulfilling our motto: “to love god and make him loved”. in an effort to support the pastoral activities, we started a coffee farm for financial sustainability of the congregation. in november 2018, we were invited by acweca to join the sisters’ blended value project (sbvp) and introduced to the concepts of social entrepreneurship by miller center. during our visit to some successful social enterprises, we were inspired by nucafe’s farmer ownership model which ensures that the farmer remains the owner of his coffee up the value chain, helping him to get more income. their mission to change the livelihoods of the smallholder coffee farmers in uganda challenged us to work with smallholder coffee farmers in our local community to increase their coffee productivity and incomes for improved livelihoods.