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Afroma House Coffee business has a strong social impact component. Afroma House Coffee commits 10 % of its profits to Congolese Women Refugee livelihood enhancement programs in Uganda.
Uganda’s central location within one of the world’s hotspots and Government’s welcoming policy towards refugees has made the Country one of the biggest refugee hosts in the World Uganda currently hosts 1.7 Million Refugees mainly from Southern Sudan and the Democratic Republic of Congo. A bulk of these refugees is women and their accompanying children. One of the biggest challenges faced by these refugees is the difficulty to realize a livelihood most especially putting food on the table while in the host Country. This is due to the fact that the size of the existing refugee support budget does not match with the current refugee big numbers
Women bore the biggest blunt due to their ‘ordained’ role of providing for family livelihood. This situation has pushed women refugees into criminality like prostitution and simple thefts in order to get food more so for their children. A number has committed suicide due to depression brought about by this state of affairs
It’s upon this background that Kikomeko Muhammad, one of the Co-founders of Afroma House Coffee and an attorney with an extensive career in Refugee livelihood enhancement space came up with the idea of using one of the Country’s key resources to provide a solution to refugee women destitution while in Uganda Afroma House sells packed roasted coffee on both the Ugandan and United States Markets and commits 10 % of the profits to Congolese women refugees under People for Peace and Defence of Rights (PPDR) a local Congolese refugee led organization in Uganda Part of this 10 % is committed to providing startup capital for Refugee women skilled and ready to start a livelihood enterprise and the remainder is committed to hiring a consultant to skill these refugee women on how to successfully start and operate a livelihood enterprise profitably. Two of the Congolese Refugee women are directly employed by Afroma House in its operations.
