Gasharu, Rwanda - Filter

About this coffee

PRODUCER: Gasharu Washing Station / Smallholder Farmers

REGION: Wimana, Nyamasheke-Gatare District

Gasharu coffee is managed by Valentin Kamenyi. Growing up in rural Rwanda in the 1990s, coffee had a mythical quality to it. "I was told coffee beans were sold abroad to make bullets. This was intriguing to me as I always imagined bullets to be magical, small and yet so noisy and powerful,” he recalls. Of course these child hood tales are now a thing of the past, yet coffee still carries special significance to him as the heart of his community.