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Bikes to Rwanda

  • Video by: Lindsay Utz , Sen Kumpa, George Langford, Morgan Hobart, Kyril Cvetkov, Nate Goodman, Stefan Nadelman, Daniel Kim, Morgan Currie
  • Posted: October 1, 2007 at 7:38 pm

Lugging huge bags of coffee through the unpaved hills of Rwanda to a processing plant was back-breaking work for the Karaba coffee co-op. In this original GOOD video see how a collaboration between Karaba and a Portland, Oregon, coffee roaster has solved that problem, boosted production, and given birth to a new non-profit.

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DISCUSSION: 1 Comment
    • Posted by: jeremiah.kerr
    • on March 12, 2009 at 6:50 pm

    I love it that people care enough about others to make sure programs like this exist.  It helps to remind me of how beautiful the world really is.

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