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Africa Agri-Food Development Progamme: Moyee Coffee
From Department of Foreign Affairs
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From Department of Foreign Affairs
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Moyee Coffee is an international coffee company, headed up in Ireland by social entrepreneurs, Shane Reilly and Killian Stokes whose passion is to reimagine the coffee industry, tackle poverty and enable more equality across the supply chain through coffee-growing countries.
Through this FairChain business model, Shane and Killian have brought coffee to offices, shops and homes across Ireland and the UK.
With AADP grant funding totalling €750,000, Moyee Coffee was able to expand and strengthen operations along its value chain for coffee from Ethiopia to Kenya.
A number of other projects including the establishment of low carbon roastery in Kenya, the introduction of farmer training, the purchase of a washing station and digitisation, were all made possible with the support of the AADP grant funding.
The grant also enabled Moyee Coffee to support its growth in Ireland through enhanced marketing, which proved vital to survival in the context of how businesses needed to adapt to cater for the shift in
how consumers engage and purchase, during and as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Shane Reilly and Killian Stokes:
“Coffee farmers are some of the poorest farmers in the world - we want to help change that. We wouldn’t be in business today without the help and financial support of the AADP. The seed funding has been vital to our survival. It gave us credibility and enabled us to achieve business growth particularly through the expansion of our facilities in Africa. The application process was very beneficial and gave us structure. The AADP was very open, flexible and realistic in terms of how we would use the funding.”