ORGANIC COLOMBIA – ANEI

ANEI are an organisation of 600 families belonging to 4 indigenous native communities in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and the Serranía del Perijá. The organisation was founded in 1995 by Aurora Izquierdo, the first Arhuaca native woman from the community of Yewrwa to study in Bogotá, to help develop the economy and living conditions of native and farmer communities in the region. Aurora Izquierdo is a leader in the Arhuaca community. She uses coffee to promote the cultural native communities living in the Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta and Serranía del Perijá, improving quality of life and sustainability. This coffee is sourced via collecton centres, providing valuable drying facilities though guardiolas. Cherry is picked ripe and wet processed before being brought straight to the collection centres. Once dry, the coffee goes through rigorous cupping and grading before being bagged and exported.