Tadesse Meskela photographed with Tony Blair, General Manager of of the Oromia Coffee Farmers Cooperative Union Ltd, Ethiopia
Tadesse Meskela grew up in the countryside outside Addis Ababa by the early 1990s he was working as a senior expert in the state Agricultural Bureau and after a two month co operative training placement in Japan Tadesse was inspired to develop a co operative union system as a way for farmers to retain the huge sums of money being paid out for the services of middlemen and exporters The Union has facilitated the building of four new schools seventeen additional classrooms four health centers two clean water supply stations and 2 million have been returned back to the farmers in the form of dividends Today Tadesse represents 101 Co operatives and the livelihood of over 74 000 coffee farmers which including their families is over half a million people
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