Drink Coffee. Do Good.
Nearly three years ago, I published a guidebook called 100 Places Every Woman Should Go. Ever since, I've kept my eyes peeled for new places to add to the mix, and just discovered another one over the holidays: Land of a Thousand Hills Coffeehouse in Roswell and Atlanta, Georgia. Every coffee bean on the premises hails from two farming cooperatives in Rwanda: the Buf Café Cooperative and the Coadeka-Bukonya Cooperative. Buf Café, I was delighted to discover, is owned by Epiphany Mukashyaka, a widow who became Rwanda's first female entrepreneur after the genocide that killed nearly one million ethnic Tutsi and moderate Hutu sympathizers over a 100-day period in 1994. Started in 2006, Epiphany's cooperative now provides work for more than 2,000 farmers. A good portion of her coffee beans are shipped to Georgia, where they are roasted, blended, and brewed daily by the good folks of Land of a Thousand Hills.