Sean Clarke owns and runs a Coffee Shop in Britsol, Kuvuka, and has generously donated
£500
to support the work at the Lira Clinic.
In his Blog he writes:
It is a little known fact that coffee was first used in Uganda five centuries ago.
However, it was not roasted and used as a drink as it is today. The coffee bean had a key role in the Buganda ritual of brotherhood. Coffee plants grow a berry-like pod, each of which contains two coffee beans. When two Buganda men wished to cement their friendship they would split open one of these pods and extract the beans. They then made a small cut in their torso, put some of their blood in the bean and exchanged beans. As long as each had the other’s coffee bean they remained blood brothers.
