We contribute to our Community2Community (C2C) Fund with every cup, bag and capsule sold – your coffee costs you no more, it just goes further. Any project we undertake must have a purpose that improves life under at least 1 of the 3 core pillars of the Fund... EQUITY, EDUCATIONand ENVIRONMENT.
Investment goes directly to our partner cooperatives who take the lead on how the money can be best put to use. C2C Fund™ investment built the first-ever maternity clinic on Idjwi Island in partnership with female-led cooperative Rebuild Women’s Hope (RWH). Before that, it helped enable quality and infrastructure improvement for then start-up cooperative Muungano in eastern DRC.
This year, we make our way to Honduras…
An increase in population and a lack of state investment in coffee producing areas has left a gaping hole in the education system, and is leaving many children without sufficient resource and others with no education at all. The infrastructure of schools in rural Honduras needs drastic improvement – better infrastructure means better environment which means better learning and ability to take on more students. Together with SolCafe, we are embarking on a project to improve the infrastructure in 3 school across 2 of the most impoverished coffee growing municipalities in rural Honduras. We look forward to bringing you more as we move forward…
We set up the C2C Fund™ in 2015 to underpin our entire business, ensuring accountable social and environmental impact is delivered to coffee producing communities in every Mozzo coffee sale. Built into our business model is a fixed social dividend invested directly into the C2C Fund™ with all coffee sold. Contributing across the entire Mozzo Coffee range, we solidify our commitment by investing 1p per capsule, 1p per coffee bag and 10p in every kg of roast and ground coffee sold into the Fund.
We track the accumulated funds every month and as it builds up it gets invested back. Working with our small farm cooperatives to identify partner community projects, asking them where and how the Fund will have most impact, from their perspective. No quick fixes, only sustainable, long-term impact.
So far we have invested £128,766.42* into the C2C Fund™. You can find out about our previous projects and stay tuned for updates on our new project in Honduras…
*Figure correct as of May '23
REBUILD WOMEN’S HOPE (RWH), IDJWI ISLAND, DRC
Determined to create a meaningful progression in the wider community, RWH identified the urgent need for a maternity and paediatric clinic on the south of Idjwi island, home to some 250, 000 people with no (at the time) medical provision. Mozzo committed its entire C2C Fund™ contributions for 2020 and 2021 to building the clinic and funding the start-up operation…
Discover more about our partnership and the impact of the clinic on Idjwi Island…
MUUNGANO COOPERATIVE, KINYEZIERE, DRC
After a trip to the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) in
2014, we found a start-up cooperative called Muungano. In one of the poorest countries in Africa, and without so much as an office or computer to their name at the time, Muungano grew sensational coffee but sought our help improving infrastructure and quality…
Read more on the impact C2C Fund™ investment has had for the Muungano Cooperative…