Farm Africa is a charity that works across eastern Africa, helping to reduce poverty by helping farmers grow more and sell more.

In Kanungu, the charity addresses the issues hindering young Ugandans from setting up profitable coffee businesses through training in coffee production and strengthening the capacity of agribusinesses and cooperatives to support coffee farmers.

In October 2020, a group of eight senior businesswomen from the UK food and farming industry travelled to the remote hilly district of Kanungu in western Uganda to face the ‘Thousand Trees challenge’ of planting 1000 trees in just three days, with the aim of raising £75,000 for Farm Africa. The trees were planted with the aim of providing shade on a total of 36 coffee farms across 80 acres.

Learn more about Farm Africa’s work via this link.