Our Story

Choose WilPhi coffee! Thank you for drinking with purpose, for honouring the hands that nurture our beans, and for turning a humble coffee moment into a catalyst for change.

Growing up in a rural community where coffee was the backbone of her village, Phina Nalukwago witnessed firsthand the dedication and resilience of the women who toiled in the fields, day in and day out. Her mother, a pillar of strength, led a women's saving group with unwavering passion, empowering them to break free from poverty's grip. For over 20 years, this group had been their safety net, their voice, and their ticket to financial freedom.

When she finished her higher education, Phina felt an inexplicable pull to return to her roots. Drawn by her mother's group's spirit of solidarity, their knack for turning challenges into opportunities, and their hunger for growth, she decided to join the saving group too.

It was great learning and sharing ideas with these women who managed to earn a living for their families even with the little money earned and saved from the coffee fields' work, until one day in their savings group meeting a woman shared a story that pierced the room. "Mama, why do we work so hard but stay poor?" her daughter had asked her one evening, her fingers stained red from the day's harvest.

She had no answer. She only knew what generations of women before her had known: that they would plant, pick, and process the coffee that the world loved, yet remain invisible in its story.

"What if the women who grew Uganda's exceptional coffee could own their story, their labour, and their future?" this voice kept echoing in Phina's mind. She remembered the talented women farmers whose names no one knew, whose profits they never saw, whose potential was buried in someone else's soil. She envisioned a day when all this would change for the better and luck won out! Phina met Peter Williams, in an Entrepreneurship workshop at Agha Khan University during her strive towards a better future.

With the support of the two foundations, financial and structural support, Peter and Phina launched WilPhi Enterprises ltd and through financial literacy programmes and mentorship, slowly but surely, they transformed despair into hope. Women who had lost faith began envisioning a brighter future, joining hands with WILPHI Enterprises ltd.

Now, as they grow WILPHI Coffee, every bean tells a story of solidarity. When you choose WILPHI Coffee, you are not just buying exceptional Ugandan beans from careful hands, you are investing in:

Fair Pay, because quality deserves premium compensation, you are funding a literacy programme and saying that the hands that grew our coffee deserves dignity and opportunity.

Each bag carries a story, each purchase creates change because at WILPHI, women are not just included, they are empowered. Not just paid, they are valued. Not just workers, they are leaders, owners, and producers. When you sip, you support them.

25% of the profit goes to support the women in coffee and 25% goes to support women with endometriosis in Pan African Endometriosis organization.