14th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Travel
Freshly roasted coffee beans

I took this photo on a visit to the incredible Sipi Widows Group, a group of formidable widows in Eastern Uganda who have formed a coffee farming, roasting, and packaging cooperative to support their livelihoods. We learned the whole coffee making process from raw to roasted bean!

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 06.2016
Date Uploaded: 12.2016
Photo Location: Uganda
Copyright: © Emily Ausubel