Why Uganda, and what we've built there

Uganda is where Three Avocados began, and it's still where our founder's heart is. An estimated 14 million Ugandans lack reliable access to safe drinking water, and access varies sharply by district — from around 25% of people in some areas to 95% in others. The cost is paid in health: diarrhoea contributes to roughly 33 child deaths every day in Uganda. Since 2011, we've funded clean water projects across the country with two trusted partners: Compassion International and Hearts & Hope for Uganda.

The work has taken different shapes — wells and borehole repairs in northern districts, household-scale filtration through Compassion International's Water of Life program. Each Water of Life filter can clean roughly one million gallons of drinking water over its lifetime, and that model fits rural Uganda well: communities are dispersed and maintaining a shared pump is harder than maintaining a household device. Across all interventions, our partners estimate this work has reached well over 40,000 people in Uganda.

"It used to take me two hours to collect water for my mother. Now it only takes a few minutes, and I get to play games with my friends after school instead." — Apio Centrine, age 11, Kapyoyon, Uganda

Every project on this page was funded by people buying coffee. The Uganda Bugisu Coffee we roast comes from the volcanic slopes of Mt. Elgon — same country, same farmers, same loop.