Editorial illustration🇨🇩DR Congo
DR Congo · South Kivu
Muungano
Muungano Cooperative
Sweet Bloom Coffee Roasters
Red Bourbon· Washed
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Farmer profile
🇨🇩DR Congo
Muungano Cooperative
Muungano Cooperative is a coffee producer organization based in the South Kivu province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, with headquarters in Kiniezire. Founded in 2009 by 350 members, the cooperative now represents over 4,000 smallholder farmers who work to unite communities previously divided by civil conflict. The cooperative operates multiple washing stations and a quality control lab to process Bourbon variety coffee grown at high altitudes. Beyond coffee production, the organization invests in community infrastructure, including a hydroelectric plant, a maternal health clinic, and gender equity training programs.
History
Counter Culture focused its Congo relationship on Muungano beginning with the cooperative’s 2017 harvest and committed to purchasing from Buchiro washing station. The cooperative has also used Seeds grants for plant nurseries, literacy work, and community projects.
Published coffees linked to Muungano Cooperative
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Editorial illustration
🇨🇩DR Congo
DR Congo · South Kivu
Buchiro – Natural Sundried
Muungano Cooperative
Counter Culture Coffee
Buchiro washing station
Field Blend· Natural
Explore the profile →Research sources & verification
These source links were recorded for this producer profile. They provide a way to check the documented claims; the links do not independently establish each person's identity, current farm relationship or coffee lot.
Research last reviewed: 2026-10-05
- Source 1: counterculturecoffee.com
- Source 2: counterculturecoffee.com
- Source 3: africancoffeeconnect.com
- Source 4: oxfamfairtrade.be
- Source 5: atlascoffee.com
- Source 6: gepa.de
- Source 7: coopcoffees.com
- Source 8: tdc-enabel.be
- Source 9: thirdcoastcoffee.com
- Source 10: atlascoffee.com
- Source 11: atlascoffee.com
- Source 12: atlascoffee.com
Professional coverage
Professional coverage involving coffees from Muungano Cooperative
This coverage concerns specific lots — roasted, sold and reviewed by other roasters and publications — at moments in time. It is not a review of every coffee connected to Muungano Cooperative, and none of these scores applies to our current coffee profiles or to the farm generally.
Coffee Review
93 · Coffee Review 100-point scale
Project Congo Muungano
Published March 2021
Coffee Review scored Wonderstate Coffee's washed Project Congo Muungano 93 points - tying for second-highest in its March 2021 cause-coffees cupping - a chocolaty, sweetly nutty cup from a South Kivu cooperative of which one-third of members are women. Sweet Bloom's Muungano comes from the same cooperative but as a natural-processed lot from a different harvest and roaster.
Different roaster, lot or harvestSource