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STiR coffee and tea 43 CIMBRIA SEA ELECTRONIC SORTERS SECURE HEALTHY AND TOP QUALITY GRAINS MEET CIMBRIA AT: CIMBRIA.COM MUCH MORE THAN FULL-COLOR SORTING CONVEYING | DRYING | SEED PROCESSING ELECTRONIC SORTING | STORAGE | TURNKEY | SERVICE CIMBRIA SRL Via Colombarotto 2 40026 Imola (BO) ITALY +39 0542 361423 seainfo@agcocorp.com www.cimbria.com www.seasort.com 5. Collaboration: Communities hold the solutions to their own problems, therefore the best way to impact these commu- nities is through collaboration and partnership. 6. Empowerment: IWCA supports actions that strengthen women to realize their full potential. 7. Inclusion: IWCA supports the inclusion of all — men, women, and youth — working together to achieve positive im- pact through empowered communities. From this vantage point, women and men decide to come together and, of their own drive and accord, complete the eight- step IWCA chapter formation protocol to become local change leaders, connected globally to similarly driven organizations in countries across IWCA. Barista bootcamp in Uganda In 2018, Ugandan national barista champion Annet Nyakaisiki identified an important disconnect between baristas and farm- ers — the former had little understanding of coffee growing and processing, and the latter had virtually no grasp on what became of their green coffee after it left their hands — so Nyakaisiki and IWCA Uganda developed a "bootcamp" for cross-training women in these two important parts of the supply chain. Baris- tas were able to learn about growing, harvesting, and process- ing green coffee, and farmers got a chance to participate in the roasting and cupping of their own crop — some for the very first time. From armed conflict to selling coffee in Philippines In Kandayok, in the Philippines' Sulu Province, women had to walk 5km to gather water while men were fighting in rebel groups as part of an armed conflict that has been ongoing since 1969. The fighting exacerbated poverty in the region; many homes had no water or electricity. Princess Kumala Sug-Elardo returned to her hometown of Kandayok in 2008 to address the issue of water. After a water line was built to bring water directly into town, she formed a women-led cooperative — the People's Alliance for Progress Multipurpose Coopera- tive (PAP-MPC) — to improve coffee quality and support development of research into coffee selection, processing, and IWCA Vietnam field visit Credit - IWCA Vietnam