A builder with compassion as wide as his building skills is going to put the two to good use in Ethiopia.
The location was chosen because it was the source of some of the world’s best coffee, tended to by impoverished farmers who don’t receive a fair price from overseas buyers.
Mr van der Burg will meet with the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative to learn more about fair trade coffee and the plight of coffee growers.
“You can choose to make a difference by being aware of something simple like fair trade coffee.”
He says there is a 2000 percent markup on coffee from its source to the coffee shop.
“The poor and oppressed need a voice, we need to challenge corporates who keep the wages low,” he says.
“It’s about how we can improve the lot of the coffee grower.”
To extend their humanitarian effort, they will
be taking 300kg of clothes to a local orphanage.
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