Coffee Story: Ethiopia

If there ever was such a thing as the perfect coffee table book, this would be it. I have ONE FREE COPY ($65 value) of Coffee Story: Ethiopia to giveaway. Come inside for details…

Coffee Story: Ethiopia is the first ever book to chronicle the culture of coffee in its country of origin– Ethiopia. Author Majka Burhardt shares a visual and narrative tale of opportunity, resources, education, and tradition. The Coffee Story Ethiopia team thinks these stories can change the world. It’s the twenty-first century and Ethiopia, in the global consciousness, is shedding its history of drought, famine, and war. It’s doing so by embracing the heritage and potential of its defining crop, coffee, a plant first accounted for in legend more than three thousand years ago and that now ranks among the world’s ten most-valued commodities. Coffee Story: Ethiopia is the recounting of that process: a visual and narrative tale of opportunity, resources, education, and tradition.

Author Majka Burhardt’s prose weaves its way into the fabric of the Ethiopian coffee story with precision, humility, and curiosity. The result is both informative and illuminating. Coffee Story: Ethiopia is a unique co-venture by US-based Ninety Plus Press and Shama Books, an Ethiopian publishing company. It is thus the only coffee story that is both about and from Ethiopia. Ethiopia’s coffee story unfolds through photos, vignettes, and extended captions that allow easy entry onto any page. Coffee Story: Ethiopia also transcends the bean itself to explore Ethiopia’s larger landscape and peoples.

Coffee Story: Ethiopia features elegant photography by Travis Horn and Helmut Horn, original artwork by illustrator Molly Holmberg, and elucidating guest essays from leaders in the coffee industry. This book proves an invaluable addition to the library of the coffee professional, the coffee consumer, and anyone interested in this ancient plant and in exploring Ethiopia’s territories and lore.

Coffee Story: Ethiopia from Ninety Plus

About imagine1day’s work in Ethiopia:
As an implementing organization, imagine1day partners with dedicated communities, building community ownership and project sustainability every step of the way.  imagine1day addresses the Four Pillars of Education: Access, Efficiency, Equality and Quality.  This includes the construction of schools, clean water points and private pit latrines, provision of school supplies and furniture, curriculum enhancement, teacher training, and Parent Teacher Association leadership development.  Their partner schools are actively engaged in income generating activities designed to fund ongoing school operating and improvement costs.  They also actively support the development of their government partners through communication, vision and goal setting workshops.  100% of all donations directly fund imagine1day’s school projects. Visit: imagine1day.org to learn more.

About the Campaign:
The Coffee Story Ethiopia team thinks these stories can change the world. They support imagine1day with a donation of $20 from every book purchased via the imagine1day portals.

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“COFFEE STORY: ETHIOPIA” BOOK GIVEAWAY CONTEST

Cut-off for the contest is Wednesday, September 14th at 12 noon.

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