Great taste while serving others
Despite the myth that the most expensive coffee bean Arabica needs high altitude and moderate temperatures, Tonga still produces thousands of Arabica coffee beans a year for roasting.
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Tupu’anga coffee is harvested, roasted and packaged right here in the Kingdom of Tonga.If the fact that the coffee is grown here is not enough to convince you to give it a go, then the great taste of this coffee will certainly convince you. |
Tupu means to grow up, spring up or come into existence: originate.
Anga means character, characteristic and customs.
Tupu’anga is to “grow from your roots”
Tupu’anga coffee is a social enterprise, which also raises funds for a Pacific youth mentoring programme that is run in South Auckland, New Zealand. This programme (also called Tupu’anga) is run by the social service agency called Affirming Works, and provides pacific mentoring to over 300 young people a year to help them into tertiary studies and jobs.
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| Tupu’anga Coffee staff and Affirming Works staff (Tonga 2010) |
Tupu’anga coffee is also a ethically traded enterprise. By roasting the Tongan Arabica beans before we sell them, we are able to pay our local farmers a fair price above the word-wide coffee commodity rate. We are also able to employ many local Tongan workers on the coffee farms, and in the roasting and packaging of the coffee.
