Raw Material Coffee launches phase two of its 11 Million Trees program via a Kickstarter campaign

BRISTOL – Raw Material Coffee, a UK-based social enterprise, is launching Phase Two of its 11 Million Trees program via a Kickstarter campaign. The initiative aims to help double national coffee production in Timor-Leste and significantly reduce poverty among coffee-growing families.

Coffee supports 37.5% of households, yet yields are roughly 20% of the global average.
Research from Monash University and the National Coffee Sector Development Plan shows that doubling production would bring poverty among these households down from 50% to 28%.

This campaign builds the enabling system: repurposed solar panels, plastic-to-machinery workshops, treated bamboo structures, new variety-testing forests, and large-scale seedling and soil programs. Supporters can plant trees, power villages, and receive coffee from the harvests they help create.

The campaign has already nearly reached its initial goal, has been selected for Kickstarter’s own ‘Projects We Love Collection’ and has the official backing of Timor Leste’s President Jose Ramos Horta.

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Phase Two priorities 

1. Repurposed solar to power remote mills
2. Plastic-to-machinery workshops
3. Treated bamboo replacing rusting steel
4. National variety-testing forest
5. Nursery and soil program for 10,000+ families

What backers receive 

• Trees in their name
• Coffee from the lots they support
• Direct visibility into the regeneration process

About Raw Material Coffee

Raw Material is a green coffee focused social enterprise. Over the last decade, they have worked with more than 20,000 smallholder coffee producers across Colombia, Mexico, Rwanda, Burundi, and Timor-Leste to connect them to the specialty market and build the foundations for long-term income stability.

They have delivered emergency response programmes in Timor-Leste and Rwanda after severe climate shocks, and in 2017 ran a successful Kickstarter that funded a high-quality community wet mill and rare variety trial forest in Quindío, Colombia.