Esau Mafabi: Coffee Farmer & student, 26years, Sironko district (Code/SR/304)
The bicycle helps him transport sacks of green coffee beans for hulling at the Budadiri Coffee factory where the beans are graded based on size, density and quality. Getting produce to the market or processing factory is not easy, says Esau. You only have two choices; hike with it or hire a motorbike to carry it, options that are physically exhausting, time consuming and expensive”. Esau grows Arabic coffee on the slopes of mountain Elgon, Eastern Uganda and obtained a Trek size 26 bicycle under CFF’s smallholder bicycle asset financing scheme.
The factory pays him Shs.6000 per kg from coffee beans and he has been able to double his income since he no-longer spends a lot of money on hiring a motorbike to transport coffee beans to the factory. The income has also enabled him to pursue a diploma in civil engineering at Mount Elgon Technical Institute and uses the same bicycle daily to study at the institute.