Bikes to Rwanda
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. This original GOOD Magazine video shows how a collaboration between Karaba and a Portland, Oregon, coffee roaster it supplies has solved that problem, boosted production, and given birth to a new non-profit.
Set to the beats of African hip hop (GOOD is as cool as it is caring), the video documents the non-profit Bikes to Rwanda program that has aided the Rwandan workers in their harvesting efforts with a fleet of specially designed bicycles. Including a brief but informative glimpse at the coffee bean harvesting process, the video explains how the bikes have expedited work while also improving the economic prospects of the workers. A tangible look at the possibilities of small but powerful business innovations in the global market.
Length: 4:09
Video: Lindsay Utz, Morgan Currie, Daniel Kim, Stefan Nadelman, Nate Goodman, Kyril Cvetkov, Morgan Hobart
Rwandan Video Footage: SPREAD/Identity Africa
Executive Producers: Lindsay Utz and Morgan Currie
Editing: Daniel Kim
VIEW: http://www.goodmagazine.com/section/Look/bikes_rwanda
Member Comments
Channels