Community Tours in Rwanda - From Crop to Cup
The ‘From crop to cup’ experience combines the stunning scenery of Lake Kivu with an educational excursion where visitors learn about the coffee growing process. Visitors learn in hands-on ways about the entire coffee production chain. They pick their own coffee cherries and follow them through the various steps of coffee washing. In the end, they enjoy a cup of hand-grinded and traditionally roasted coffee together with their local hosts.
- Main partners: Ingoboka coffee cooperative
- Number of direct beneficiaries: ca. 350 cooperative members
- Number of indirect beneficiaries: ca. 2,000 dependants
- Community percentage of profit sharing: at least 70%
- Material community benefits: 11 rotating income-generating opportunities, community development fund, sale of coffee
- 5-10 persons: $100/person excl. transport
- 11-14 persons: $80/person excl. transport
- 15-24 persons: $60/person excl. transport
- Special reductions for NGOs and universities
- Prices exclude the boat transport and the lunch
- Variations: special tailor-made tour packages from Kigali, start or end of tour in Kibuye, volunteering on a coffee plantation, other lake activities including fishing, further activities in the Gisenyi area
