The farmers in the Kigoma region harvest their coffee in the rolling hills between Lake Tanganyika and the rugged mountains that create a natural border with Burundi. They grow mostly Bourbon variety coffee plants here at elevations between 5000 and 5500 ft. Our coffee comes specifically from growers of the Rumako and Manyovu cooperatives, part of a much larger umbrella association called Kanyovu.

We worked directly with co-op’s cuppers in Kigoma to select the beans for this ‘super-lot’ which expresses in its cup quality all the hard work of the growers through means of bean selection, processing and drying. Our lot was the first that the co-op exported independently, which allowed the members to garner more of the profits and began the move towards self-sufficiency down the road. 

Allegro will donate $10,000 to Grounds for Health, a non-profit organization that works to create sustainable, effective cancer screening programs on coffee-producing regions.  Cervical cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths for women in low-resource countries— and Tanzania has one of the highest rates in the world.  This distressing fact is due to a lack of screening and prevention services, but their programs deliver a straightforward and affordable solution to this problem.