This Cooperative is made up of 823 farmers who are located in the West Province of Rwanda, near the town of Rutsiro. 

The Cooperative was founded in 2005 and have featured in the CoE with a lot submitted by 46 of the farmers. Kopakama is recognised as a womens cooperative, although women represent only 23% of the membership they have a majority on the Board so having a major influence on directing their direction and success. 

Before the inheritance law was enacted in 2000, women in Rwanda couldn't own a coffee garden and were denied the right to be landowners. Rwandese women now own land and coffee farms in their own right. and some have acquired land given to them by husbands or allocated parts of their plots to manage, harvest and sell. 

All of the above enables these women to have their own income from coffee to spend as they like, such as paying for school fees for their children and to buy medicines

The Cooperative was founded in 2005 and have featured in the CoE with a lot submitted by 46 of the farmers. Kopakama is recognised as a womens cooperative, although women represent only 23% of the membership they have a majority on the Board so having a major influence on directing their direction and success. 

Before the inheritance law was enacted in 2000, women in Rwanda couldn't own a coffee garden and were denied the right to be landowners. Rwandese women now own land and coffee farms in their own right. and some have acquired land given to them by husbands or allocated parts of their plots to manage, harvest and sell. 

All of the above enables these women to have their own income from coffee to spend as they like, such as paying for school fees for their children and to buy medicines.

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