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Here's some more detailed information that explains the situation in more detail, this coming from the importer/development folks in the UK who are doing the groundwork on this coffee:

"Of the current 1,760 members of Abakundakawa Coop, 720 are women. Currently, 70 women make up the Duhingekawa women's group, a name that means "let us grow coffee" in Kinyarwanda. The women who are in the Abakundakawa group are women heads of household, to use project jargon. That means their husbands were mostly killed at the time of the genocide. They are looking after their own children, but often they are also looking after orphans from families of relatives, and even of non-relatives, where both parents were killed. They have formed a group within ABK. I'm afraid when we talked to the ABK president, Charles Habinshuti, this morning he did not know the name or the numbers of the group, but promised to