ISU senior Destin Beck (left) buys a cup of Burgie’s Coffee and Tea Co. Uganda Bugisu blend from Global Café employee Emily Woodard. Photo by Amy Vinchattle.
The fair-trade Ugandan coffee brewed in the new Global Café in Curtiss Hall's Harl Commons is an apt symbol of the rich relationship between the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences and Uganda. So is the college's pledge to pour 50 percent of the commission it receives from all café sales back into its programs to support Ugandan children and farm families.
Through the Center for Sustainable Rural Livelihoods, the college has a long history of work with Ugandan farmers, families, communities and schools. In recent years, many ISU undergraduates have journeyed to Uganda to work on a number of service learning projects, ranging from planting school gardens to digging wells.
