Thanksgiving Coffee Company

Calculate Your Impact, Understand Your Power

When you buy Mirembe Kawomera “Delicious Peace” Coffee, you raise money for peace and justice.

Each pound of “Delicious Peace” Coffee is bought at the Fair Trade price of $1.61, and raises another $1 per package through profit-sharing. To calculate your monthly impact, multiply the number of packages by $1.61, then add the quantity (number) of packages bought. The total is your financial impact.

By buying 1 package every month of the year, you raise $31.32 for the farmers who grow your coffee.

By buying 2 packages each month of the year, you double your impact, raising $62.64. If you enlist the support of 10 friends, and each buys 2 packages per month, you raise $626.40 over 12 months.

If you enlist the support of 20 members of your community, and each buys 2 packages per month, you raise $1,252.80 over 12 months.

If you enlist the support of 100 members of your community, and each person buys 2 packages per month, you raise $6,264 annually.

If your community mobilizes 500 people to commit to buying 2 packages each month, you raise $31,320 annually.
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Alone, your contribution through buying two packages a month and raising $62.64 enables a farmer to buy 12 mosquito nets to protect 12 children from malaria-transmitting mosquitoes (each net costs $5).

By bringing 5 friends together, and raising $313.20 you would raise money for the school fees of 2 children, and also their books, for an entire year.

By mobilizing 100 members of your community, and raising $6,264, you could raise enough money for 2 families to build solid brick homes with metal roofs to keep dry during the rainy season.

By mobilizing your entire community of 500 people, and raising $31,320 you could raise money for 5 families to rebuild their homes, send 75 children to school, and buy 1,000 mosquito nets to protect 1,000 people from malaria.

Please contact us for further information about calculating your impact and how to define a goal for your campaign.

This weekend I receive a serious and legitimate inquiry via email. On our website, we describe Mirembe coffee as “A sweet, nutty coffee from Uganda with notes of pecan and nutmeg, and a lingering sensation of malty antiquity.” The question arose, “What suggestions do you have for a nut-free facility?”

No need to worry. The description of the coffee is more about taste and character, than an actual outline of ingredients. In the coffee world, we use certain words to describe the texture, taste, aroma, feeling, etc. of the sensation of the coffee experience. We talk about floral notes like jasmine, even though there really aren’t any flowers in the coffee. When we talk about acidity, we are really just talking about the tingly feeling that lingers on our tongues after we swallow. We mentioned notes of pecan and nutmeg because when we taste the coffee it brings us back to Thanksgiving time and on our pallets we can taste the subtleties that are associated with pecan pie.

There are no nuts in the coffee. There are undertones, which are less intense than notes, and notes are different than hints. Basically, it’s just coffee talk. The only thing in the Ugandan Mirembe Coffee, is coffee. It is not flavored with anything but love and hard work. Coffee tasting and descriptions are much like wine. If you read a wine label it might say hints of melon, or notes of cedar, when really all that’s in the bottle are fermented grapes.

Thanks for bearing with us. Although the coffee is nut-free, I make no claim that we aren’t a little nuts (it keeps things fun on this end).

Best,
Holly