Bonnie Allen

Jewish coffee farmer J.J. Keki started an interfaith coffee growers cooperative called Mirembe Kawomera, or "Delicious Peace" in English.

After the harvest, Keki oversees the drying process. There are now 2000 coffee growers in the cooperative.

Coffee growers from all religions come together at their cooperative headquarters, now under construction, to hand sort dried beans.

Coffee farmers meticulously pick out the dried beans blighted by insects or disease.

Muslim coffee grower Joweria Nabuduwa shakes the dried coffee beans to separate the rotten ones.

Muslim coffee farmer Budala Labale only started growing coffee after the cooperative negotiated a minimum price of $1.55 per kg from California company Thanksgiving Coffee Co.

Growers bring their coffee beans to the Mirembe Kawomera headquarters to be weighed and poured into burlap sacks.

From the Mirembe Kawomera coffee growers, the beans are then processed by another cooperative, Gumutindo Coffee, before being shipped to America.

Tthe beans are hand-sorted again by hundreds of women to guarantee only a "clean green bean" is shipped to the USA.

From here, the beans go to California where Thanksgiving Coffee Co. roasts and sells the coffee.