Curt Fissel

Delicious Peace Grows in a Ugandan Coffee Bean

Curt Fissel

The Abayudaya are Ugandan Jews, who once numbered 5000; but due to casualties from Idi Amin’s regime of terror, only a small group remains. Living with lingering intolerance as well as collapsed coffee prices, struggling Jewish, Christian and Muslim coffee farmers put aside their differences and form the Delicious Peace Coffee Cooperative. What follows is an uplifting and inspiring story.